2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication. John Berger

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You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist. John Carney

You Yourself People Money Complain Wealthy About Constrained Having More Small Absolute Budgets Make Making Artist Bigger Means Your Express Express Yourself Film Amount

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide. John Cena

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume. John Cena

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Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions. John Corabi

Me Money Political Nothing Rant See About More Opinions Very Than Artist Going Irritates Them Then Paying Specific

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker. John Cusack

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently. John Edgar Wideman

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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. John Frusciante

Alive Definitely Like Yeah Any Artist Intentions Being Really

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. John Langdon

Words Visual Fine Both Artist Graphic Specialize Designer Presentation

I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records. John Legend

Me Remember First Sit Back Stations Out Introduce Would Record Record Label Records Take Remember When Like Came Label Conference Artist Just Staff Room Them Used Radio Radio Stations Whole Play

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums. John Mellencamp

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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say. John Prine

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I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world. John Prine

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I'm basically a starving artist. John Trudell

Starving Artist Basically

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist. John Updike

Nothing Live Worse Struggling Almost Almost Nothing Than Artist

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family. John Updike

Family Thinking Locate Over Another Artist

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance. John Van Hamersveld

Painting About Performance Became Because Artist Just Which Then Media

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