Artists Quotes · Page 30

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

— Rachel Stevens

“It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.”

— Michael Lee West

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

— Narada Michael Walden

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

— Ellsworth Kelly

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

— Jimmy Iovine

Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.

— J Hus

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't…

— Drake

Charlie Murphy has been around for a long time. I've worked with a lot of exciting artists, and it was a thrill…

— Charlie Murphy

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's…

— Laurie Simmons

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!'…

— Laurieann Gibson

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are…

— John Updike

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.…

— James Gray

“When it comes to forming opinions on works of art, people look to others. Most people end up liking paintings, songs and…

— Abhaidev

“Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is…

— Willa Cather

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've…

— Agnetha Faltskog

“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations.…

— Suzy Kassem

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of…

— Robert Hughes

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it,…

— Justina Chen Headley

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.…

— Charles Jencks

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home…

— Miroslav Volf

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I…

— Gore Verbinski

“Noa sleeps with the curtains open, allowing as much moonlight as possible to flood her bedroom, allowing her to see each and…

— Menna van Praag

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early…

— Common

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

— Brian Celio

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

— Chamillionaire

I'm always game to work with exciting filmmakers and exciting artists.

— Harris Dickinson

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

— Terry Gross

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

— Douglas Sirk

“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

— Maria Konnikova

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we…

— Maya Angelou

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

— Seth Godin

I'm lucky, I'm very, very lucky. I work with some of the most amazing artists.

— Hope Sandoval

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process.

— Olivia Rodrigo

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

Future is different from a lot of artists just because of his work ethic.

— Metro Boomin

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore