Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our audience sees that and understands that - they're behind it.

It feels nice to be able to call Brainfeeder my home. It's giving art the platform. That's what Brainfeeder has always been for me: hope for art.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.