Artists Quotes

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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up… — Robert Smithson
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation. — David Sarnoff
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get… — Robert Wyatt
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is… — Maxfield Parrish
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even… — Carine Roitfeld
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. — Kenneth Noland
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. — Barnett Newman
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against… — Barnett Newman
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with. — Dieter Rams
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow. — David Guetta
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. — Robert McKee
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? — Alexander Theroux
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at… — Alan Jay Lerner
There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million. — Tim Westergren
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. — Deana Carter
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course. — Skitch Henderson
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the… — Luci Shaw
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In… — Kit Williams
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. — Maurice Baring
This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait… — Rick Derringer
I'm something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed… — Samantha Mumba
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and… — Henry Ossawa Tanner

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