Artists Quotes

2212 Artists quotes by 1502 unique authors

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. — Eddy Grant
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate… — Edward Abbey
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that… — George Jones
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… — Stephen Shore
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in… — Mark Van Doren
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle… — Allan Bloom
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more… — Manny Farber
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous… — Ronald Reagan
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must… — John F. Kennedy
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. — Sol LeWitt
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet… — Paul Klee
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished,… — Sol LeWitt
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what… — Madeleine L'Engle
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin… — Madeleine L'Engle
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and… — Maurice Sendak
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become… — Emile M. Cioran
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable — Liz Phair
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come — Paula Cole

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