Quotes About Artists

I want to take my success and replicate it with other artists.

Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.

If black artists can win major commissions and international acclaim, why do we assume that to be black is always to be marginal, or in need of special support? We have to recognize how diversity initiatives can make black artists feel ghettoized and, as some cultural commentators have argued, bear 'the burden of representation.'

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

My gallery represents a lot of figurative artists.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

I think back to the Eagles, Elton John, people like that when I think about the Troubadour. It's an iconic place.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh, no.' Sometimes, you get art back and you're like, 'That's exactly what I imagined in my head,' and you're happy about that.

Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.

I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.

You got some artists who want street credit. Like, they market street credit. They take certain incidents and turn it into marketing to try and boost the sales. You don't never see me speaking on that. I'm trying to stay away from it.

My personal favourites include J. J. Cale, R. D. Burman, Mehdi Hassan, and Ghulam Ali.

My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.

I'm lucky that I enjoy playing live; it's my passion to do that. There's certain artists that never want to play live. They just want to be in the studio. Good luck, because there is no income.