Artist Quotes - Page 147

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist.’

Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.