Quotes of: Artiste Keyword

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Janet Jackson

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Jessie J

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

Jared Leto

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

John Langdon

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Jonny Lang

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Craig Raine

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

Donatella Versace

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Dionne Warwick

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Jacques Barzun

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

Little Richard

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

Marco Brambilla

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

Marla Sokoloff

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Brad Holland

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

Daryl Hall

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Lady Gaga

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Jerry Saltz