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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. — Holly Near

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

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear. — Pras Michel

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that. — Chris Stokes

Artists are fiery, they do not weep! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — Jeff Koons

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

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker

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

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. — John Kricfalusi

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

All Children are Artists — Pablo Picasso

Artists are the radical voice of civilization. — Paul Robeson

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

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists. — Bruce Dickinson

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

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. — Edward Weston

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. — D.W. Winnicott

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. — Lady Gaga

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

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

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. — Donald Judd

All Artists are Anarchists. — George Bernard Shaw

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

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. — Oscar Wilde

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. — Larry Kramer

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

All artists are protected by copyright ... and we should be the first to respect copyright. — Billy Cannon

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate. — Tom Ford

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

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard. — Stephen Fry

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer. — Len Wein

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. — Paul Schrader

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

Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket. — Alex Gino

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves. — Andre Holland

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

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. — LeRoy Neiman

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists. — Jack White

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking. — Olafur Eliasson

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there. — Sara Bareilles

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking. — A.E. Samaan

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. — Kelly Clarkson

Artists are the emotional historians of the world. — Richard Blanco

In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel

Artists are like everybody else. — Damien Hirst

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born. — Captain Beefheart

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others. — Janet Jackson

We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch. — Bob Ross

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art. — Julian Casablancas

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know. — Robert Barry

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out. — Bobbi Brown

I think people are intolerant of artists. — David Chase

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. — Jonathan Franzen

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands. — Peter M. Brant

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. — William Hurt

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that. — Jeffrey Lewis

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us. — Tori Amos

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

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

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

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield

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

Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists. — Alexei Shulgin

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

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time. — John Baldessari

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. — Joel-Peter Witkin

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

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

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art. — Nikki Sixx

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