#artists

Artists are like everybody else. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#else #everybody #everybody else #like

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #cliches #culture #cultures #eager

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. ↗

— William Hurt

#i #necessarily #point #prove #want

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#coaster #get #going #hard #hard work

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#exhausting #i #i think #think #time

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#artists

I hate artists who are not of their time. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#hate #i #their #time #who

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#men #monotony #nature #poets #soon