#artist

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#artistic #compromise #corruption #gifts #greed

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

— Lauryn Hill

#easy #go #how #know #look

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #dramatic #everything #exciting #graduated

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#beliefs #better #better way #cannot #commercially

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#artistic #extreme #great #great time #important

Artists are like everybody else. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#else #everybody #everybody else #like

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#any #artist #aware #been #before

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ↗

— Novalis

#artist #belongs #his #work

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artist #asked #back #because

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artistic #artwork #ashtray #death