« All Artists Quotes · James A. Baldwin's Page
Artists Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- Artists are here to disturb the peace.
More Artists Quotes
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu
- 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
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono
- The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono