Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.