Artists Quotes

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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to… — Sherrie Levine
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window. — Susan Rothenberg
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to… — Unknown Author
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be… — Unknown Author
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Henry Miller
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. — Marsilio Ficino
Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Unknown Author
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of… — Unknown Author
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs. — Brian Chesky
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. — Drake
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. — Paul Schrader
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie. — Unknown Author
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov
Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz… — Lilian Thuram
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still… — Cindy Sherman

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