Art Quote by Denzel Washington

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

— Tierra Whack

There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your…

— David Bayles

As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that other artists…

— Salim Akil

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

— Steven Wilson

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know…

— Ai Weiwei

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you…

— Taylor Swift

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already…

— David Chase

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's…

— John Lennon

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just…

— FKA twigs

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I…

— Jennifer Nettles

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests…

— David Bowie