Quotes About Artists

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

I love Instagram and Twitter, and I think it's awesome that fans can connect with their favorite artists, but it also gives them a chance in that comment box to say what they really feel about them.

I want to encourage the artists that haven't made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.

I don't think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.

There's certain artists who are loyal and certain ones don't really care and don't give you the opportunity to follow through with them again. I'm insulted by a lot of the artists I delivered hits to.

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.

I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the U.K. hip hop scene.

I take pride in how I interview people. One of the things people come to our show for most is the interaction I have with the artists; it feels very peer-to-peer.

A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Entre los hombres hay algunos que tienen la preciosa facultad de adivinar el alma de las cosas. Se llaman artistas.

Throughout, the Museum reflects the personal taste of Mrs. Whitney. In each case final choice of a work of art depended on her, since there is no board of trustees. This is a Museum founded, maintained and managed by artists, since Mrs. Whitney, the curator, and his assistants are sculptors or painters.

Creative artists are probably no more difficult to seduce than plumbers, the problem is meeting them.

Finally, Vienna was the only city in the world in which artists and intellectuals made no attempt to revolt against the bourgeois élite. On the contrary, they remained for a long time perfectly integrated with it. Together they formed a coherent and complete stratum of society in which everyone knew everyone else, and all were united in cultivating 'art for art's sake'.

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

For hundreds of years, their recorded writings—whether nuns or poets, inspired teachers or artists—have described a division, or painful restlessness, within themselves prior to a moment of illumination when a great light or descent of grace fell upon them.