#artist

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #artist #find #him #his

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #building #buys #creates #equal

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 #called #craft #does #gods

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ↗

— Prince

#artists #called #companies #compulsory #law

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#artist #bum #europe #hollywood #working

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#anyone #artist #been #else #given

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#his #history #job #time #witness

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#artist #back #get #i #just

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it. ↗

— Denise Richards

#artist #asking #every #get #go

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#back #california #came #early #hanging