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Quotes About Artists

Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.
~ Robert Hilburn
Oh first, let me tell you how amazed I am by the wealth of talents in the Philippines. I remember watching a lot of home videos about Filipino artists, and they are really very talented. That really motivated me to always do my best and to stay inspired.
~ Dinah Jane
From Vienna with Love' will build a bridge across the globe from Vienna to Sydney, full of music, love and fun. I am really looking forward to performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and fabulous guest artists who all have ties to Vienna and telling a story with music that inspired me and songs from my debut album.
~ Conchita Wurst
Even if dubstep is a massive global concern, with hardly any racial barriers between artists or crowds, it has been usurped in the UK by a style that was practically a carbon copy of the original immigrant sound-system way of doing things.
~ Unknown
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
~ Max Bill
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
~ Katherine McNamara
Contudo já seria consolador se soubéssemos que virá uma geração de artistas mais felizes
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Trade is slow here. The great dealers sell Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, a few other masters at exorbitant prices. They do little or nothing for young artists. The second class dealers contrariwise sell those at very low prices.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
But if Gauguin and his Jewish bankers came tomorrow and asked me for no more than 10 pictures for a society of dealers, and not a society of artists, on my word I do not know if I'd have confidence in it, though I would willingly give 50 to a society of artists.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
You are kind to painters, and I tell you, the more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. You will say that then it would be a good thing to do without art and artists.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
One of the best reasons I have for knowing That Fascism is bogus is that it is too much like the kinds of Utopias artists plan over cafe tables very late at night.
~ W.H. Auden
I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
~ Sara Bareilles
My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"
~ Neon Hitch
tanto con la riqueza como con la indigencia resultan peores los productos de las artes y peores también los que las practican.
~ Plato
Melito representa los poetas, Anito los políticos y artistas y Licon los oradores.
~ Plato
I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian
~ Rachel Cohn
When you think of Atlanta, you think of all these artists but what female? I want to be that.
~ Latto
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.
~ Kim Dotcom
I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.
~ Charli XCX
I like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, obviously Future - I love Future.
~ Le'Veon Bell
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
~ Sigmar Polke
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
~ John Updike
Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.
~ Future