Artists Quotes

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

The more far-out artists, the better.

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.