2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. Lauren Groff

I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is. Lauren Jauregui

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There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not. Lauren Mayberry

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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. Laurie Anderson

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When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. Laurie Simmons

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It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. Laurie Simmons

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Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job? Laurie Simmons

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I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor. Laurie Simmons

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With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director. Laurieann Gibson

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Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records. Laurieann Gibson

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Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job. Laurieann Gibson

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I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know? Laurieann Gibson

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For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary. Laurieann Gibson

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Lawrence Durrell

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More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.' Lawrence Osborne

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. LeRoy Neiman

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I think, as an artist, you definitely have to evolve. I've learned that that's very important. However, you have to stay true to yourself while also keeping up with the trends in music and this industry. LeToya Luckett

Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist. LeToya Luckett

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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm. Lecrae

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I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at home. Lecrae

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I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist. Lee DeWyze

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As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. Lee Krasner

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There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.' Lena Headey

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