#artists

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

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

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#categories #expected #fit #fraudulent #into

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #control #cultural #end #fact

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#different #different kind #different kinds #frank #i

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#cartoons #deeper #dust #exist #grunge

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#anyone #artists #because #blues #brown

Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#because #been #call #called #change