Art Quote by Samantha Ronson

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix…

— Robert Trujillo

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

— John French Sloan

“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality,…

— David Foster Wallace

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

— John Barth

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that…

— Stacie Orrico

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot of artists…

— Tyga

It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music.

— Sky Blu

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

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

— Melody Gardot

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come…

— George Saunders