The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Arthur Erickson

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

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
Michael Schenker

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
Patti Smith

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.
Robert Wyatt

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
Katy Perry

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
Holly Near

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Kenneth Edmonds

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Patti Smith

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
Paula Abdul

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
Robert Smithson

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
Marsilio Ficino

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
Anish Kapoor

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
Wayne Coyne

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
Sol LeWitt

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
Tahar Ben Jelloun