Ability Quote by Mannie Fresh

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and…

— Jerry Saltz

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

— Patti Smith

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

— Mathew Knowles

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

— Johnny Van Zant

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him…

— Lukas Foss

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

— El-P

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be…

— Criss Jami

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

— Dizzee Rascal

There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level. I think…

— Jack Conte

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid