Art Quote by Alan Arkin

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

— Joe Budden

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like…

— Dennis Brown

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got…

— Aphex Twin

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

— Federico Fellini

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

— Linda Ronstadt

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

— Aaron Rose

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

— Natalia Kills

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

— Carroll O'Connor

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I actually think that many of the musicians who have something meaningful to say don't win competitions. An incredible pianist like Horowitz had so…

— Charlie Albright

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

— Tom Odell

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

— Andy Warhol