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I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. — Solange Knowles

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

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

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did ... And he did it in the 50s! — Yony Leyser

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget. — Hetti Perkins

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

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us. — Twyla Tharp

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not. — E.J. Bonilla

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ... — Robert Henri

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

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. — Solange Nicole

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well. — Nickolas Ashford

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs. — Andres Serrano

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. — Marilyn Vos Savant

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

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

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

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller

Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner. — Kit Rocha

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. — Kenneth Noland

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

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. — Mary Steenburgen

That's the difference between artists and the rest of us, I think. Artists know where to put the shadows. — John David Anderson

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable. — Marianne Williamson

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

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally. — Wendy Starland

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

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

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists. — Hugo Pratt

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them.
We are not here to do what has already been done. — Robert Henri

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

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going. — Ben Whishaw

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova. — Kenneth Edmonds

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go. — Kim Wilde

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. — Brit Marling

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do. — Jackson Harris

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him, — Tim Wu

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

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

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. — Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers. — Jessica Sanchez

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

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. — Carl Jung

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer — Alfred De Musset

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

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H.L. Mencken

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. — Peter Gabriel

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

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

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies. — Dat Phan

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick. — Christian Scott

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality. — Adrienne Bailon

I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z. — Estelle

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. — Jessye Norman

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

Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke. — Sophie Kinsella

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life. — Amanda Palmer

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts. — Jimenez Lai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you. — Thomas Mars

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family. — Jim Steranko

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. — Craig Raine

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore

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

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. — Sean Parker

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively. — Erin Willett

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it. — Sondra Radvanovsky

There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking. — Irving Sandler

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

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. — El DeBarge

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

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. — Kyle Dunnigan