Artist Quotes

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry. Jada Pinkett Smith

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones. Jake Tapper

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history. Jalen Rose

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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. James A. Michener

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When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that's not really the case - it's what sells. James Arthur

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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. James Cameron

Mother Engineer Father Also She Housewife Artist Electrical

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with. James Cromwell

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. James Frey

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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. James Huneker

You Surprise Child Artist Scratch

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. James Iha

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision. James Lee Burke

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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist. James Sanborn

Myself Considered Always Nonfiction Artist

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist. James Turrell

You Optimist Forget Artist Being

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start. James Wolpert

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever. Jamie Campbell Bower

You Nothing Skin Think Color Develop Takes Red Blend Over Over It Like Go Forever Get Artist Tattoos Want Literally Transfer Which Then Should Skin Color Moment Thing

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again. Jamie Hewlett

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Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist. Jamie Hewlett

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I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist. Jana Kramer

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. Jandy Nelson

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