Artists Quotes

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

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!

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.

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.

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.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

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.

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.