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I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while. — Wale

YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like. — Jake Bugg

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb! — MC Lars

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever. — Susan Griffin

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

Many incredible artists die before they were famous. — Yoko Ono

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine. — DMX

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us. — Anne Rice

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman

What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs. — Seymour Stein

Artists deserve to make a living — Larry Harvey

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. — Drake

Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing. — Dylan Lauren

Good artists are always crazy, one way or another. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. — Kim Gordon

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

All Children are Artists — Pablo Picasso

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. — Robert Adams

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. — Ang Lee

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny

Great artists have no country. — Alfred De Musset

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists. — Ann Voskamp

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists. — Janina Gavankar

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. — Marty Rubin

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that. — Jimmy Cliff

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually. — Sinead O'Connor

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. — Oscar Wilde

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve — Frank Wynne

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses. — Kina Grannis

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. — Sharon Olds

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad

People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing. — Warryn Campbell

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists — William Blake

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them. — Conway Twitty

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. — Barbara Boxer

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. — Marty Rubin

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime. — Kim Dotcom

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists. — Mark Mothersbaugh

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money — Oscar Wilde

spattering the walls with pulp and guano, like graffiti artists. — Henri Cole

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it. — Antonin Kratochvil

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Love is an art and this world lack artists. — Javaria Waseem

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving
as it has imaginative artists. — L. Ron Hubbard

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. — D.H. Lawrence

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done! — Rachel Stevens

Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people. — Waguih Ghali

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. — Jim Harrison

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration? — Kate Christensen

Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century? — Erik Larson

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it. — Narada Michael Walden

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

As with any true artist, change is the only constant. — Tony MacAlpine

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect. — Amit Kalantri

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco De Goya

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. — Andrew Jack

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. — E.A. Bucchianeri

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

The best artists know what to leave out. — Charles De Lint

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out. — Ken Baumann

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. — Jim Sullivan

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do. — Elizabeth Hand

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. — Thane Rosenbaum

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.' — Alexandra Cassavetes

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. — Alison Moyet

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences. — Jane Rosenthal

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect. — Shia Labeouf

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable. — Marina Abramovic

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen. — Paul McCartney

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it. — Mary Robinette Kowal

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists. — Jon Favreau

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. — Carl Andre

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party. — Andrei Codrescu

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view. — Shirley Manson

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. — Jack White

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists? — Aldous Huxley

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album. — Juicy J

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing. — Jo Stafford