I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Maynard James Keenan

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
Jack Nicholson

The industry is a menace to artists.
Nikki Sixx

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
Nikki Sixx

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Steven Morrissey

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
David Hockney

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
Josef Albers

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
Thom Yorke

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
Thom Yorke

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
Thom Yorke

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
Afrika Bambaataa

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
Andrew Wyeth

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
John Legend

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
Sarah McLachlan

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Paracelsus