#artists

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspiration #inspirational

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#case #changed #control #days #deal

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #been #buy #choose #conscious

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way! ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#artists #bit #break #chances #comes

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#cover #get #i #nice #response

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#around #artists #believe #doing #find

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#astounding #cake #cakes #charm #city

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#clique #first #generation #group #identity

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#strippers #life

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin. The job is not the work. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #commitment #conformity #dedication #job