Artists Quotes · Page 32

“Women born works of art, men doomed to spend entire lifetimes trying to create just one.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

— Karen Kain

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

— Mike Patton

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

— Marina Abramovic

I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are…

— Janelle Monae

I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do.…

— Beth Simone Noveck

Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new…

— Andrea Dworkin

I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my…

— Eddie Trunk

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell…

— Kris Allen

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing…

— Johnny Marr

There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm…

— Jeremih

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village…

— Donald Sinden

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.

— Clive Davis

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in…

— Loren Weisman

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

— Thelma Golden

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

— Anohni

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

— Pierre Berton

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

— Nan Goldin

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

— Solomon Burke

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

— Alicia Keys

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

— Frank Gehry

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

— Donald Judd

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

— John Romero

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

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

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

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

— Jacob Lawrence

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

— Diana Ross

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

— Anne Truitt