Artist Quotes
5936 quotes by 3079 authors
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's…
— Chinua Achebe
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
— Sebastian Bach
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
— Kevin Bacon
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist…
— Erykah Badu
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You…
— Erykah Badu
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
— Erykah Badu
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist'…
— David Bailey
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
— Honore de Balzac
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I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly…
— Antonio Banderas
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We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
— John Banville
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music…
— P T Barnum
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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
— Bela Bartok
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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