Top 535 Artists Quotes

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career I’ve done songs with down South artists.

I’m envious of ‘Glee’ – artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

We eat up artists like there’s going to be a famine at the end.

I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

I grew up on 23, country music highway, which is a stretch of road where Ricky Skaggs and Dwight Yoakam and Loretta Lynn played. Driving up and down that on the way to school – to baseball games, to anywhere – you see all these signs commemorating these artists. It was a point of pride for my area growing up.

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

I didn’t want to save art – I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn’t know what I would do.

I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

We believe that we’ll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

Museums are for dead artists. I’d never show my work in the Tate. You’d never get me in that place.

People might say I’m difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as ‘difficult’? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar’s comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

I don’t know many artists who’ve come out of Beverly Hills, y’know? You need that struggle.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-budget, nobody cared. We could just go off and work.

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it’s much, much more diluted.

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such a modest scale that it becomes sort of inconsequential.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

As artists, we’re always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I’m always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.

Basically everything I’ve done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I’ll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn’t work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They’re relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

People think because it’s photography it’s not worth as much, and because it’s a woman artist, you’re still not getting as much – there’s still definitely that happening. I’m still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that’s really unfair.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It’s logic-based creativity.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It’s therapy.

There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it’s the end.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

I’m delighted to be involved with ‘Glow Up.’ The make-up artists are so impressive and talented.

So it’s a majorly important thing for young artists, as well as older artists like myself, to know that not only do we have the right to say no, but if we don’t say no, we’re gonna die.

I’ve always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don’t get approached often enough.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.