Artists Quotes

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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. — Peter Coyote
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out… — Ike Turner
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. — Gary Lucas
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we… — Julia Cameron
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm… — Ellen Langer
Dancers are both athletes and artists. — Margot Fonteyn
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books,… — Angelina Jolie
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of… — Unknown Author
Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips. — Don Herold
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make… — Simon McBurney
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has… — John Wain
We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art. — Young-Ha Kim
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because… — Young-Ha Kim
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A… — Pablo Picasso
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought… — Ayn Rand
Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office… — Jerry Vlasak
Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate. — Tom Ford
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all… — Jane Rule
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict… — Pablo Picasso

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