Artists Quotes

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

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

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.