Inflict Quote by Lydia Lunch

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms,…

— Clifford Ross

I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I…

— Bipasha Basu

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

— Lizz Wright

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

— Dave Matthews

I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical…

— Mike Patton

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell…

— John Lennon

I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend…

— Nicole Ari Parker

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how…

— John Lennon

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I…

— Zhang Xiaogang

I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those…

— Laura Jane Grace

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude…

— Ed Kowalczyk