Best Artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”

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“To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Artist Touring You Like It

Author:Paul McDonald

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.”

People Want Looks Artist One Thing Stuck Really Great Early Work

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“My first influences were superhero artists.”

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Author:Scott McCloud

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

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Author:Teena Marie

“In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!”

Artist My Own Singers Ballads

Author:Thia Megia

“I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.”

People Whole Shows Artist Scare Anthology

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.”

Years Body Wanted Artist Guy Defined

Author:Todd McFarlane

“I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.”

Stills Book Artist Ink Here And There

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.”

Artist Opportunity Spawn

Author:Todd McFarlane

“I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.”

Shows Artist Guy Watches Four Adults Likes Seconds Scare Creepy

Author:Todd McFarlane

“If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.”

People Different Artist Turns Spite Owners Entity And Off Fortresses

Author:Todd McFarlane

“To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.”

People Book Artist Issues Standing Sidelines Spawn

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.”

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Author:Alexei Navalny

“Artists need to express.”

Needs Artist

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.”

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Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.”

Knows Art Done Artist Honest Integrity

Author:Bruce Nauman

“As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.”

People Ifs Artist Choices Dare Outsiders

Author:Connie Nielsen

“As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.”

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Author:David Nail

“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.”

Thinking Long Artist Please

Author:Joe Nichols

“I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.”

Film Artist Successful Comedy Television Series Including Roosters

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.”

Artist Pieces Critique

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Should Doe Artist Next Particular Band Like Something

Author:Conor Oberst

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.”

Knows Artist Struggle Hardest Vacation Hardest Thing Time Off

Author:Karen O

“I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.”

Happens Artist Cartoon

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“You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.”

Artist Song Given Honest

Author:Rita Ora

“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.”

Ends Artist Left Industry Empty Leaving Accountability Void Empty Life

Author:Stacie Orrico

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Wanted School Artist Left Painter

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.”

Thinking Artist Actors Opinion My Favorite

Author:Josh Peck

“Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.”

Kind Use Artist Actors Draws

Author:Josh Peck

“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.”

People Ifs Want Sometimes Artist Asks Fun Solo

Author:Liam Payne

“You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.”

Play Artist Song Poet Bird Profound

Author:Dolly Parton

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.”

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Author:William C. Brown

“Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.”

Thinking Want Able Artist Dumb

Author:Amy Lee

“When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.”

Artist Gaga Beyonce

Author:Cher Lloyd

“I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

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