Art Quote by Patti Smith

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

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

— Johnny Van Zant

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If…

— Grayson Perry

Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It's incredibly vulnerable to be an…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

— Rachel Cusk

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they…

— Pras Michel

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

— Nikki Sixx

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new…

— Michael Eisner

It's an odd time we're in. Social media has led people to feel artists should disclose every move they're making for their career/ life.

— JoJo