Artists Quotes · Page 33

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

— Sophie Blackall

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Amit Kalantri

“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

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

— Cornelia Parker

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

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

— Billie Eilish

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there…

— Jasper Johns

“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those…

— Lyor Cohen

“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got…

— Jennifer Egan

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.…

— Jeff Koons

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind…

— Nile Rodgers

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing…

— John Varvatos

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are…

— Chris Carter

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

— Mena Massoud

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Poppy

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

— Isaac Hanson

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

— Keith Urban

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

— Alan Sparhawk

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

“And in uttering that Excellently executed truth You become an artist too”

— Maddy Kobar

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

— David Bayles

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

— Nadeem Aslam

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

— Eli Broad

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.

— Chris Stokes

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

— Zoe Buckman

I think that a lot of times you have artists that try to deliver a positive message.

— Big Daddy Kane

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