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Artist Quotes by Yoko Ono
- Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
- Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.
- I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together…
- True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
- Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
- Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
- I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
- I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
- Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
- People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
- People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in…
- We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
- Women artists are still treated differently from men.
- Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the…
- In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz.…
- Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not?…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- 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… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu