2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of. Heavy D

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. Henri Matisse

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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way. Henri Nouwen

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I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more. Henry Cejudo

Fighter Martial Wrestler More Mixed Officially Artist Now

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. Herb Alpert

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore. Herschel Walker

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy. Hilarie Burton

I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it. Hiro Murai

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Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. Holly Near

Hurt Willing Part Surprised Shocked Artist Being

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback. Howard Hodgkin

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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person. Howard Hodgkin

Isolated Am Person Artist

When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep. Hozier

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I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist. Hozier

Myself Thought Obscure Always Very Artist

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. I. M. Pei

Me Natural Architecture Mother Poet Think Side Artist Artistic

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything. Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. Idina Menzel

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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go. Idina Menzel

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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray. Iggy Azalea

Me You Man Whatever Tell Wear Someone Never Stylist Hire Heard Artist Forte Your Chosen Image Portray Suit

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. Igor Stravinsky

Imitators Prestige Gives Real His Artist

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. Ike Turner

Myself Good Me People Considered Entertain Entertain People Never Singers Always Very Artist Being Staging Show Teaching Organizer Included Applied

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day. Iman Shumpert

Day Me All Day Rap Stay Studio Time-Consuming Artist Ordinary Compared

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