Advertising Quote by Brandi Carlile

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only…

— John Marin

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

— Kim Weston

If you're not as emotionally invested in your music as I believe true artists are, then I don't have to say you have any…

— Matty Healy

I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur…

— Joel McHale

I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can…

— Sylvester Stallone

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and…

— Ann Powers

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful,…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which,…

— David Bowie

Every artist wants to feel like they're still valid in a contemporary way. But you can't be so arrogant not to think that people…

— Dennis DeYoung

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

— Vanessa Paradis

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of…

— Douglas Adams