Artists Quotes · Page 31

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

— Hiroko Sakai

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

— Eric Idle

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

— MO

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.

— George Perez

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

— Idina Menzel

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed…

— Elaine Stritch

A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much.…

— Kandi Burruss

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why…

— Dan Scanlon

“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they…

— Roman Payne

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the…

— Clive Davis

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus…

— Victor Pinchuk

There are a lot of middle of the road artists of the '70s, who aren't being played anyplace. I think it's unfortunate…

— Anne Murray

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being…

— Lauren Oliver

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their…

— Brian Eno

I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of…

— Luke Bryan

I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that…

— Suzy Menkes

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or…

— Barbara Kruger

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing…

— Todd Rundgren

I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there…

— Martin Freeman

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind…

— Martin Dansky

Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play…

— Charles Hazlewood

I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists.

— Syd

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

— El DeBarge

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

— Jacob Lawrence

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know…

— Jasper Johns

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

— Diana Ross

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

— Sophie Blackall

“Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.” “Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

— Cornelia Parker

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

— Isaac Hanson

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

— Poppy

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk