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Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books. Votes: 3
Richard ScarryArtists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. Votes: 3
Ted LangeArtists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. Votes: 3
Peter GabrielArtists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. Votes: 3
Kiki SmithArtists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back. Votes: 3
Ned RoremArtists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think. Votes: 3
Mark MillarArtists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. Votes: 3
Sol LeWittArtists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest. Votes: 3
Sylvester StalloneArtists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. Votes: 3
Charles SaatchiArtists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others. Votes: 3
Natalia KillsArtists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Votes: 3
Jean CocteauArtists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything. Votes: 3
Eugene DelacroixArtists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. Votes: 3
Antonio GaudiArtists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect. Votes: 3
Nile RodgersArtists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others. Votes: 3
John KurtzArtists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. Votes: 3
Wes NiskerArtists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes. Votes: 3
Mary Beth McKenzieArtists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. Votes: 3
Joel-Peter WitkinIn free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. Votes: 3
John F. KennedyArtists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. Votes: 3
Winslow HomerArtists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. Votes: 3
Mike CurranArtists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. Votes: 3
Craig JohnsonIt's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. Votes: 3
Edward WestonArtists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinArt is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. Votes: 3
Jack WhiteMistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. Votes: 1
Robert SmithsonTime and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. Votes: 1
John DeweyAll children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Votes: 1
Pablo PicassoTrue artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. Votes: 0
Aniruddha SastikarMother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. Votes: 0
David RockefellerGreat artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. Votes: 0
Catherine Drinker BowenOne mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAll artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellWithout poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Votes: 0
Guillaume ApollinaireVisual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. Votes: 0
Peter DiamandisPhotographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireThe world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. Votes: 0
Kazuo IshiguroAs artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory. Votes: 0
Tatiana MaslanyDancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. Votes: 0
Karen KainTrue muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. Votes: 0
Robert GennWho said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves? Votes: 0
Vanessa ParadisThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. Votes: 0
Guy de MaupassantMost artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. Votes: 0
Dong KingmanThe upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceMistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem Votes: 0
Robert SmithsonCultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonObscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. Votes: 0
Tim O'ReillyTrue poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineFinancial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. Votes: 0
Victor PinchukI've always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians Votes: 0
Jared LetoPhotographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life. Votes: 0
Unarine RamaruPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. Votes: 0
Erica JongCleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. Votes: 0
Mary Doria RussellAll artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. Votes: 0
Jacob LawrenceI'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things. Votes: 0
Wes BorlandIt benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession. Votes: 0
T. Allen LawsonIt's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause. Votes: 0
Frankie J. GrandeStatisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. Votes: 0
George E. P. BoxWomen artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable Votes: 0
Liz PhairMy favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! Votes: 0
Johnny RamoneMemory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. Votes: 0
Maurice BaringOne could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. Votes: 0
Helen VendlerWe are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements. Votes: 0
Renzo GracieGreat artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenA culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardBefore, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists. Votes: 0
Kenny ChesneyMy function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. Votes: 0
Norman GranzOriginality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardI'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists. Votes: 0
DonnisBut artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist. Votes: 0
Diane Wood MiddlebrookIt's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different. Votes: 0
Fantasia BarrinoDisco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. Votes: 0
Giorgio MoroderThere's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. Votes: 0
Joris-Karl HuysmansI was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists. Votes: 0
Rayvon OwenI think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper. Votes: 0
Bruce PavittI see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. Votes: 0
John ZornI just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands. Votes: 0
Oliver SimSometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band. Votes: 0
Miley CyrusA lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. Votes: 0
Roseanne BarrThose who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. Votes: 0
Frank GehryAmong living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. Votes: 0
Jerry SaltzThe lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. Votes: 0
Michael CunninghamI'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. Votes: 0
Howard HodgkinArt is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. Votes: 0
Barbra StreisandA civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardAuthors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. Votes: 0
Dorothy ParkerSome of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated. Votes: 0
Kara DioGuardiThere's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. Votes: 0
Marina AbramovicAll artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get. Votes: 0
John KricfalusiNo work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. Votes: 0
Lou ReedI love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else. Votes: 0
Keith UrbanIf artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiRZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. Votes: 0
El DeBargeWe will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonFor the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads. Votes: 0
Victoria ChangA lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it. Votes: 0
Narada Michael WaldenWhat is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality. Votes: 0
John Edgar ParkI have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! Votes: 0
Colin MochrieThe artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. Votes: 0
Brian EnoI have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! Votes: 0
Colin MochrieIt is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynI can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live. Votes: 0
Octavia SpencerWhat I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs. Votes: 0
Seymour SteinWhat all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work. Votes: 0
Yoko OnoI like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. Votes: 0
Big Jim SullivanLike a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me. Votes: 0
Kerry James MarshallWe don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be. Votes: 0
Kim Young-haScott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best. Votes: 0
Jim HillBut I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. Votes: 0
Robert RauschenbergFlying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Barnett NewmanThe first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
Fran LebowitzGod made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
George Bernard ShawThe rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.
Robert Anton WilsonBut who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
Francis Ford CoppolaThere's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.
Irving SandlerPoliticians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.
Marjane SatrapiI want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
William HurtThe fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.
Edward RuschaAll of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
Erykah BaduThe decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBeauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.
Grayson PerryI'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
Jim MorrisonArtists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
Steven PressfieldArtists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
Dorothea LangeArtists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina AbramovicThe record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists
Michael JacksonThere are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million.
Tim WestergrenWe have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.
Alan SparhawkAll artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
Billy CannonYou know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam GigandetI'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
Deana CarterI believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.
Jeet AulakhAs an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
Jeff KoonsMost inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.
Kenneth Coutts-SmithArtists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
Marya MannesI have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
Ryan TedderWhen Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.
Slim MoonIf artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
George SantayanaI also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.
Morgan ParkerThere's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.
Sophie BlackallArtists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Terri ClarkAs artists, it's our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.
Jared LetoI love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
Jessica LangeThe big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.
Kim WildeWhen you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Marc MaronI'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
Sara BareillesAs artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
Sara GennI'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne ThiebaudArtists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.
Ai WeiweiThe true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
Ashleigh BrilliantI believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben ShahnI think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.
Demi LovatoPresidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.
Douglas Holtz-EakinThe New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
James PurdyArtists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
John French SloanI try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.
Kanye WestArtists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
Madeleine L'EngleAn artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
Mignon McLaughlinI allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
Norman GranzI'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively...
Patrick SeguinI've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
Spike LeeMost artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
Teddy ThompsonAll the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists
Terrence HowardMost artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
Anais NinWe have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.
David BaylesWithout artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
Guillaume Apollinaire'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.
Guy KawasakiArtists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.
John ElkannArtists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
A. Y. JacksonArt is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
Ayn RandAll artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
BanksyPeople might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
Bob RossI cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Camille PagliaIntellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.
Charles BukowskiTo be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
Deborah KassI think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers
Robben FordArtists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Sol LeWittWhen bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Oscar WildeArtists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Alexander TherouxIf we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Barbara KingsolverArtists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
Carl AndreI've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
David HockneyComic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.
Don HeroldI admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
Jake GyllenhaalShooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.
Michael ReddArtists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.
Stephen De StaeblerThe invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
Bruce CockburnAnybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce DickinsonWhether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.
David OyelowoLike all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
Dennis HopperArtists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.
Jacob WeisbergLiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
Agnes de MilleI'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.
Andy WarholArtists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Donald Woods WinnicottNow there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
Gerhard RichterOur artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
Hetti PerkinsActually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
Isaac HansonI believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.
Kehinde WileyThe canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
Kurt VonnegutWhat I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
Marina and the DiamondsLiving in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
Gloria E. AnzaldúaSome of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.
Jonny LangArtists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Ludwig van Beethoven[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.
Malvina HoffmanNow what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.
Nan GoldinThe boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.
Neil GaimanWe all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Ad ReinhardtTicketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
Barry DillerArt should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
CaitlÃn R. KiernanGood artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Dave EggersThere are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.
Erik ParkerA lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.
Erin WillettMany artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
Marilyn FergusonAll great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
Nadeem AslamIf I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
Quentin TarantinoRealism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Walter J. Phillips