People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn’t be any fun being on your own. – Liam Payne
I played an artist in a comedy called ‘Rooster.’ It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including ‘Magnum PI.’ – LeRoy Neiman
A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. – Moby
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. – Ludwig Bemelmans
I’ve always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist – an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel – somebody like that. That’s my main forte. – Kenny Baker
We are in a culture where it’s so easy to just turn things off that you don’t like. And I think that doesn’t make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things! – Mandy Moore
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. – Martha Graham
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don’t feel ashamed of that. I think I’m the kind of artist that’s meant to be on a major label because my music is different. – Jon Crosby
I essentially started out with a Western series for WildStorm/DC but didn’t want to be perceived as a ‘Western artist.’ I did a couple of super-hero things at Marvel but didn’t want to be one of those guys, either. I loved all these genres and wanted to play in a very big toy box. Enter ‘Planetary.’ – John Cassaday
If you’ve ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won’t allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you. – Jerrod Carmichael
Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I’ve followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch. – John Allison
2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It’s an honour to be their Breakout Artist of the year, and I’m super excited to see what we can do together in 2016! – Kygo
Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we’ve always danced behind an artist or we’ve danced in a movie behind the actors. We’ve always been very secondary. – Lacey Schwimmer
Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one. – John Lloyd Young
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. – Marshall McLuhan
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. – Mencius
Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn’t want to spoil someone’s opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist. – Marina and the Diamonds
The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.’ – LeRoy Neiman
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that. – Marina Abramovic
I’m more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit – well, it doesn’t really describe what I do. – Kaskade
I don’t understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don’t mix. – Kathleen Rose Perkins
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people – the beauty within themselves. – Langston Hughes
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I’m intrigued by developments in technology – as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. – Janet Echelman
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don’t have what it takes. It… keeps us honest. – Lupita Nyong’o
