Art Quote by Alexandre Dumas

At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto…

— El-P

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds…

— Hermann Hesse

This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make a difference…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence...…

— Walter J. Phillips

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

— Daniel Johnston

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to…

— Robert Wyatt

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot…

— Brad Paisley

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead…

— Luca Guadagnino

I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go…

— Mase

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for.…

— Lady Gaga

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic