A Quotes
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“Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.”
“Artists don't create society, they reflect it”
Source: Elton Plays: 1: Gasping; Silly Cow; Popcorn
“Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.”
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“Artists don't need criticism, artists need love”
“Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.”
“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.”
“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.”
“Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.”
“Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.”
“Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.”
“Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.”
“Artists fire bullets of truth to pierce the ever-thickening wall of relentless lies.”
Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.”
“Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!”
“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”
“Artists have a love affair with the invisible.”
“Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.”
“Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating, no matter what.”
“Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.”
“Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.”
“Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to write songs. We certainly could.”
“Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, meaning people who themselves start out as painters, musicians, dancers, and who open a café, a bar, a restaurant, or even a co-op art gallery - they unintentionally develop the kinds of attractions that bring the middle class with some kind of cultural ambition.”
“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”
Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
“Artists have no choice but to express their lives.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.”
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
“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.”
“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.”
“Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.”
“Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.”
“Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in a broader sense when they participate in a social and political debate through their works. Often the most important voices of artists in the political and the social debate are focused on originality in their works. We can see this in historical pieces, like "Guernica" by Picasso. "Guernica" was an extremely important manifestation and critique against war, but it was important and powerful because it was also an incredibly original and powerful work of art.”
“Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.”
“Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!”
“Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.”
“Artists have to survive.”
“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Artists hear what no one else hears. They see what no one else sees. They say what no one else says. They must. And to do this, they yield traffic in the slippery slope of their own souls. They bring to earth the wrack and lode of depths that only they can reach and still come back alive.”
Source: Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
“Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.”
Source: All the bright young men and women: a personal history of the Czech cinema
“Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”
“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.”
“Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.”
“Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.”
“Artists interested in becoming famous in our society should know that it is not they who will become famous, but another version of themselves with the same name, and that other version will eventually take over and perhaps, one day, kill the true artist within them.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.”
“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.”
“Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.”