Artists Quotes

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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs. — Robert Genn
I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have… — Kanye West
I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that… — Kanye West
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up.… — Ai Weiwei
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth… — Jaron Lanier
My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back. — Louis Riel
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. — Marilyn Ferguson
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate… — Robert Anasi
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which… — Wayne Coyne
Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil. — Heitor Villa-Lobos
Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists — Duncan Sheik
Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist… — Jay Park
Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back. — Edward B. Lewis
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much. — Dana Spiotta
Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers,… — Vivianne Crowley
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in… — Kealan Patrick Burke
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are… — Bart Yates
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the… — Leonard Shlain
Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's… — Eric Avery
Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. — Stephen De Staebler
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. — Isaac Hanson
Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them. — Jerry Harrison
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison.… — Butch Vig
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they… — Austin Kleon
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you,… — Austin Kleon

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