Artists Quotes

The best artists know what to leave out.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Artists are like everybody else.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.