Artist Quotes - page 95

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist. View quote
Amy Winehouse
If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. View quote
Kanye West
I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. View quote
Jet Li
In short it is my concern to emphasize that Gorky is, of all the surrealist artists, the only one who maintains direct contact with nature – sit down to paint before her. Furthermore, it is out of the question that he would take the expression of this nature as an end in itself – rightly he demands of her that she provide sensations that can serve as springboards for both knowledge and pleasure in fathoming certain profound states of mind... Here for the first time nature is treated as a cryptogram. The artist has a code by reason of his own sensitive anterior impressions, and can decode nature to reveal the very rhythm of life, in the discovery of the very rhythm of life. View quote
André Breton
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities. View quote
Nicki Minaj
My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?' View quote
Nicki Minaj
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. (Simon Cowell)
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. View quote
Simon Cowell
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world. View quote
Simon Cowell
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself. View quote
Bruce Lee
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived. View quote
Bruce Lee
It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. View quote
Arshile Gorky
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. View quote
Bruce Nauman
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist. View quote
Bruce Nauman
When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist. View quote
Jessica Simpson
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. View quote
Josef Albers
An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room. (Eric Cantona)
Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part. View quote
Anselm Kiefer
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. View quote
Anselm Kiefer
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. View quote
Henry James
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist. View quote
Milla Jovovich