Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
Lauryn Hill

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
Waylon Jennings

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Waylon Jennings

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Nikki Giovanni

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Morgan Freeman

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

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
Leonard Nimoy

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound

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

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Linus Torvalds

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Erica Jong

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
Don Van Vliet

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
Tom Cruise

Great artists suffer for the people.
Marvin Gaye