Artists Quotes

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.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

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

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.