Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talib Kweli

I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.

Talib Kweli

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

Talib Kweli

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

Talib Kweli

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

Talib Kweli

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

Suzy Kassem

Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.

Sinead O'Connor

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.

Simone de Beauvoir

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Simone de Beauvoir

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ...

Juelz Santana

I'm one of those artists who have the presence and that swag... I was always built for the music, I don't get on cameras and pop sh*t and base it on a whole lot of hype and talk, I was built off my music...

JR

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Juan Goytisolo

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

Joshua L. Liebman

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

Karl Kraus

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

Karl Kraus

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Karl Kraus

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

Karl Lagerfeld

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Karl Lagerfeld

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Karl Lagerfeld

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Karl Lagerfeld

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Joyce Johnson

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Joyce Cary

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

Oscar Wilde

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Kanye West

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

Kanye West

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.

Kanye West

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

Kanye West

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas

Kanye West

I am a black new wave artist.

Julie Taymor

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Julie Taymor

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Judy Collins

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.