All Quotes

Artists are like everybody else.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
‐‐ Alexander Theroux

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
‐‐ David Byrne

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
‐‐ Janis Ian

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
‐‐ Patti Smith

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

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
‐‐ Morrissey

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
‐‐ Morrissey

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
‐‐ Jules Feiffer

Artists can do whatever they want!
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
‐‐ John Maeda

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
‐‐ Roy Ayers

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.
‐‐ Donald Sultan

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
‐‐ Eric Fischl

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
‐‐ Paddy Chayefsky

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
‐‐ Ted Naifeh

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
‐‐ Marsilio Ficino

Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
‐‐ John Legend

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
‐‐ Edvard Grieg

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
‐‐ Desmond Morris

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
‐‐ Drake Bell

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

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
‐‐ Charles Saatchi

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.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
‐‐ John Polson

Artists need to express.
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
‐‐ Mark Millar

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
‐‐ Simon Callow

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
‐‐ Ted Lange

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic