Artists Quotes

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I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very… — Willie Aames
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — Marina Abramovic
I do greatly admire Australian artists. — Jeffrey Archer
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and… — Unknown Author
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that… — Matt Cameron
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. — Colin Davis
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make… — Bruce Hutchison
About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be… — Marco Tempest
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still… — Jonathan Lethem
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever come. — Drake
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities,… — Jasper Johns
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds… — Marcel Proust
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… — George Santayana

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