"There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes."
Read quote
3 likes
Artist quotes
Artist
8.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Artist
Browse quotes that often appear alongside artist — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Artist quotes (page 81 of 431)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture."
Read quote
3 likes
"An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another."
Read quote
3 likes
"Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing."
Read quote
3 likes
"Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done."
Read quote
3 likes
"There's no map for being an artist."
Read quote
3 likes
"Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed."
Read quote
3 likes
"She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind."
Read quote
3 likes
"I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows."
Read quote
3 likes
"Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies."
Read quote
3 likes
"I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician."
Read quote
3 likes
"For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"
Read quote
3 likes
"If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what it's always been about. Unless you're a trust-funder or you somehow score a great part-time job or you work for another artist, you're going to go where you can afford to live."
Read quote
3 likes
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Read quote
3 likes
"Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is."
Read quote
3 likes
"What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more."
Read quote
3 likes
"Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat."
Read quote
3 likes
"Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'"
Read quote
3 likes