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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
— Sol LeWitt
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
There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
— Burton Silverman
Artists deserve to make a living
— Larry Harvey
My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
— Drake
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
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
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
— Sinead O'Connor
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
— Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As with any true artist, change is the only constant.
— Tony MacAlpine
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
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
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.
— Pierre Berton
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
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
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
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
