Artistic Label Quotes

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music person, which I never actually thought I was.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

I've never claimed myself to be a particularly Asian R&B singer. I'm R&B, pure and simple, regardless of my skin colour. Should that matter? I think not.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

I'm not a singer. I'm not an R&B singer. I'm an artist.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

I dislike labels like 'commercial' and 'non commercial.'

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.