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“Caparezza in my opinion is the only main-stream artist who really makes a difference here in Italy and the fact of being his friend and precious collaborator for years makes me a satisfied and grateful person.”
Diego Perrone (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I look for in the classics is a message that is reinvented every time a new reader opens it. Along with the author, it is the role of the introducer and artist to make a case for that fresh take.”
Ilan Stavans (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. “Stay under the shelter of the Father of goodness. No weapon forged to harm you will succeed. I love you,” the gospel artist affirmed.”
Aline Gahongayire (born 1986) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aline Gahongayire Encourages Ishimwe Vestine with Uplifting Messages of Faith and StrengthInyarwanda ( 19/11/2025 )
“I understand that there have been debates about my dress code at the closing concert and I appreciate the feedback and opinions from my fans and the general public. As an artist, I strive to express myself through various means, including my fashion choices.”
Sonia Kayitesi (born 1998) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: DJ Sonia responds to critics of her fashion sense The NewTimes, August 22, 2023
“The artist feels lonely. Singular and aristocratic, he lives uneasily in the midst of a democratic and uniform society. He feels hated by it as useless, as haughty; and despises it. Therefore, his works are not addressed to the majority, but to the few initiated.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The artist only counts on the unexpected. (May 7, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 270)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Commenting on the Apollo of the Belvedere] Apollo's body offers an absolute contrast to those of the gods and giants of the Pergamon frieze. There the muscles are all indicated, as if the artist took pleasure in giving them special prominence; here, however, the skeleton is covered with flesh, and on the flesh you can see the epidermis and you can see more elegance than strength. (p. 70)”
Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music has long been used as a tool of expression, which benefits both the artist and the listeners.”
Nissi Ogulu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill. Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.”
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.”
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.”
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am an alien/sojourner. Sent to this part of the world to work my work. Orun meni tomala agreed with me, master artist to prodigy, that an experience on this planet called earth would be what I needed to find a part of myself.”
Peju Alatise (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ARTIST’S STATEMENT - PEJU ALATISE's STATEMENT”
Peju Alatise (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“continued the great emotional actress. "It is a faith to which all is sacrificed. As at church, the artist, whose temple is the theatre, lays her soul bare.”
Cécile Sorel (1873–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was working as a freelance graphic artist but got married and had two children – meeting deadlines became very difficult. I was always drawing my sons and people asked me to do their children. I soon saw it was a way of earning money.”
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Angela Cobbinah, ‘I laughed so much the day I painted the Queen’, Camden New Journal, 18 October 2022.
“I try to transition my energy into just having fun. In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token —”
Solange Knowles (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's the great thing about being an artist. Your job is to comfort, your job is to be the voice, your job is to bring awareness, your job is to be a rebel, .”
Janelle Monae (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What does being an artist mean if one can't hold a mirror to society and critique and also applaud it”
Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is not my priority. In fact, I think I am the lowest-paid artist in the city because I am willing to give up part of my payment to pay for production costs.”
Andy Lau (born 1961) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer, on his ‘good enough’ career, being a ‘very lucky guy’, and why Hollywood didn’t tempt him" in SCMP (5 February 2023)
“‘Being an artist is also about taking risks”
Leilah Babirye (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s what it means to be an artist, for me, listening to the land and letting the land tell the stories.”
Zina Saro-Wiwa (born 1976) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sukanya Deb, Zina Saro-Wiwa’s exhibition depicts performance and complexity in a story of oil, Stir World, February 16, 2023.
“My husband has lived in this famous old building on Washington Square, built in the 1830s, for more than 40 years; and marrying me did not uproot him. I just joined him there. Living there requires Spartan endurance ... but the rewards are great indeed to the artist. There is a fine daylight from its skylights, large white marble fireplaces, and two big studios.”
Josephine Hopper (1883–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For my whole life I had been bound by the tenets of Chinese culture. To be an artist was the option which would enable me ... to be free of Chinese culture’s relentless subjugation of women.”
Jade Snow Wong (1922–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jade Snow Wong, 84; ‘Fifth Chinese Daughter’ Author, Ceramicist" in The Los Angeles Times (March 22, 2006)
“Women are looked at. But as an artist, I had permission to look back. Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare.”
Molly Crabapple (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We [Mavin] are moving from the traditional Friday release date to Wednesdays and Thursdays because there are no more Fridays [without another artist dropping a song].”
“The smile he gave her was mainstream, pop, radio-friendly. The smile he’d given me was the single released after an artist had established themselves, found their voice, could speak directly to their target audience. The smile he’d given me had more R&B to it.”
Bolu Babalola (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An artist has only his dreams. He has no power.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your freedom as an artist is somewhat curtailed. Curtailed, I said, however not compromised, for I will not allow that. Never.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Discipline is very important in every activity, especially when you’re an artist.”
Elisabetta Dami (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“must also recognise that music and poetry are key in promoting politics but you cannot ignore the fact that there is likely to be a clash. So as an artist you need to know how to manoeuvre and do the right thing in the place so that you are not misunderstood.”
Rachael Magoola (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is quite interesting how an artist can say or create something that can be translated in so many ways and resonate with people on different levels.”
Barbara Minishi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two out of three ain’t bad South Africans are continuously singing the same tune to the DA, to borrow from the artist Meatloaf “I want you, I need you, but there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you”. But unlike South Africans Meatloaf goes on to say, “but two out of three ain’t bad”
Gwen Ngwenya (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve always believed Frick to be detached from reality, but I thought he was just a megalomaniac, a manipulator, a con artist. Now I begin to slowly understand. He’s far more dangerous than any of those things. He’s a true Believer.”
Katie Coyle (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“https://afrikalyrics.com/artist/king-flekky”
King Flekky (born 2006) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people ask me what it takes to become a successful comic artist. I don’t want to go into a lengthy discussion here, so I will simply list three answers: talent, learning, and persistence.”
Eddie See Yew Lee (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hasn't it always been so that humanity has demonstrated its need over and over again for the artist and artistic creation? It's indispensable.”
Efua Sutherland (1924–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have two books – one a sort of travel book, experimental, with pictures by an artist, another a novel based on the life of Rimbaud. Both are in waiting for a publisher but these are hard to find these days.”
Barbara Adair wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To remain relevant, the African make-up artist must evolve practical options. Being home-grown, uli has the potential of being most suited to the African skin. * This study investigates the potentials of uli as an alternative make-up material in contemporary African theater practice and fills the gap created by the noticeable dearth of relevant works in the area of make-up.”
Tracie Chima Utoh wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instinct," as said, " is a great matter "; but it is not the whole. believes so much in domination and antagonism that he seems not to believe in men and women—the first act of faith that God requires of the artist.”
Gerald Gould (1885–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is strangely suspicious and impatient of youth and candour and innocence and naïveté. Hardly does it perceive these exquisite qualities to exist than it rubs away their bloom with a rough finger. How often one longs for an arrested progress — for a little girl to go on being a little girl a little longer; for the perpetual kitten of our dreams! But no; the Creator is not that kind of artist.”
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work is for my own pleasure and fulfilment. I like to give form to my emotional and visual responses and to explore themes which reflect my attitudes as a socially concious woman artist.”
Pat Hillcoat (1935–2022) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: written by Pat Hillcoat for the Women's Art Movement exhibition planned for Banyule, Feb 1982 - copy available in the Pat Hillcoat folder at Women's Art Register archive at Richmond Library, Victoria, Australia
“The artist is the one who has to mend the fragments for them to make sense,”
Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quiñones, Eric. "Challenging issues of identity in the art world". Princeton University. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
“I'm so fortunate to have appeared with country legends like Lance James and Barbara Ray and the others and I am so grateful that they invited me, especially now that I've released this country album. These singers were my heroes as a young girl and as a young artist. They have had so many hits over the years that they are great heroes to me today.”
Juanita du Plessis (born 1972) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Country Superstar Juanita du Plessis Comments on her COUNTRY LEGENDS AND FRIENDS Appearance by David FickOct. Retrieved 06, 2014
“As an artist sensitive to the histories and memories contained in the landscapes and structures that relate to our past, it is difficult not to engage with our colonial inheritance and its effects.”
Nicola Brandt (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My development as an artist in Israel and abroad has nothing to do with my husband, not with the people around him, not with opening doors. I don't use his connections to achieve anything or for someone to make my life easier. It's an iron rule for me, black and white, no gray.”
Beverly Barkat (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I chose to force myself to look here at what it means to be a white South African woman artist in America and such far flung places for thirty odd years.”
Myfanwy Bekker wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think everybody is a post-colonial artist; we’re all living in post-colonial societies.”
Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life itself is quite ‘kaleidoscopic’ and surreal. Perhaps as an artist or a ‘self,’ it is an assemblage of possibilities, probabilities and the real as more strange than the fiction. The fictions also are too heavy.”
Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Africa, Art South (23 September 2015). "In Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape". Art Africa Magazine. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
“Teaching allows me to grow as an artist while helping others develop their skills,”
Erica Chissapa (born 1988) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Zambian Artist Erica Kapaya;BY TEWASART AFRICA, retrieved on December 20, 2024
“It's a dream to make a documentary about the story of my mother and our family. It's a way of paying tribute and also taking control of my life. I'm the one who knows what I went through to be here, what I built. As an artist, I want to tell relevant stories that contribute to making the world a better place than it is.”
Heloísa Jorge (born 1984) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heloisa Jorge plays a pastor in a soap opera, talks about faith, inclusion and will film a film about the saga of the family that came from Angola; By Heloisa Tolipan, retrieved on 12/01/2022