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“As a popular artist, her music has given her the opportunity to also perform abroad. From the many international performances, performing in Seychelles was her biggest highlight. The bright colours, welcoming people and instant happiness from the nation had her fall in love with the country from the moment she landed.”
Liloca (born 1985) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with the talented Liloca, retrieved on November 02, 2015
“When asked who were her greatest musical inspirations, she mentioned that she is highly inspired by both international and national artists. One inspiration is Brazilian singer Alcove, who sings a calmer genre of music compared to hers. In the future, she hopes to collaborate with great entertainers such as Beyonce, who she highly relates to as an artist.”
Liloca (born 1985) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview with the talented Liloca, retrieved on November 02, 2015
“What’s next for me is everything under the sun. I have grown, I have evolved. I’m no longer just an artist. I’m an entrepreneur now”
Amantle Brown (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As an artist, you’re always throwing away small amounts of paint, but when you add it up, you realise how substantial it is. The idea came to me after I’d completed a large installation. I had so much paint left at the end of it, that I realised the extent of the leftover paint – the weight and heaviness of it. So I decided to work with it.”
Carolyn Parton (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The performance that happens as an artist within that space becomes a political decision to keep the work alive, relevant and moving. If I didn’t I would be ostracised even more.”
Tracey Rose (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t have a ‘feminist artist statement’ as such. Being a woman is only one aspect of who I am.”
Berni Searle (born 1964) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leander (10 August 2016). "Berni Searle". South African History Online. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
“I enjoyed these encounters. As an artist, one so seldom knows what the reaction of visitors to a gallery really is, or if they understand what one is trying to do.”
Sue Williamson (born 1941) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sue Williamson's Diary: Window over a lost district". ArtThrob. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“I’ve learned that although there is no separation between myself as an artist and myself as a human, I value the ability to continue living my life outside of the limelight which allows me to still be able to be authentic in my artistry”
Amanda Black (born 1993) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amanda Black brings healing sounds home,19/02/2025,Ms Zandile Mbabela
“[A] few years as a struggling artist in Mahikeng and seeing people that are half talented being given a chance and messing it up while I was overlooked or being boxed in as just a female wannabe rapper. That is painful beyond words. Thank God I never even thought of giving up, not even for a day”
Fifi Cooper (born 1991) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fifi Cooper: First lady of motswako,2015-10-01,Julia Madibogo
“As an artist, I have a platform to reach many people. It is my duty to use my voice to advocate for people living with and affected by HIV who are often unheard.”
Oum (singer) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UNAIDS appoints the artist OUM as National Goodwill Ambassador in Morocco, retrieved on November 04, 2024
“Funny enough we do get on so well, and we have good chemistry despite all of the judges standing up for their cause as they are experienced music industry figures and they understand exactly what to look for in an artist. Generally we get along very well, though we fight here and there and do have our misunderstandings. We are all there for the same cause. It is so much fun working together.”
Rita Paulsen (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only an artist could make such pictures by camera as those by Pegg Clarke, a very beautiful sample of which (Mist on the Mountains) was hung, in the London Salon, 1921.”
Pegg Clarke (1890–1959) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miss Clarke's Art With Camera". The Herald. No. 18, 567. Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1936. p. 7. Retrieved 23 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia. Accessed 12 April 2025.
“It’s because of Addison's that my music career took a back burner. The doctor told me you have to pick between being an artist on the road and your life. You will not be able to do tours all the time because your body is not going to be able to take it.”
“I am everything that my heart desires to be. I am a woman, an artist, a lover of life and most importantly, a woman living a purposeful life. I am thankful for the gift of life and the chance to do what I love”
Khabonina Qubeka (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, I am a fearless and driven artist because I was always surrounded by like-minded people”
Khabonina Qubeka (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I stand with fellow women, girls, children, youth and people with disabilities, to advocate for an end to gender-based violence and promote access to education. As an artist, I feel that I can make a difference.”
Sangie first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sangie appointed UNICEF Malawi Champion for Children, retrieved on 05 October 2018
“I am an artist in my own right, a singer, painter, and choreographer.”
Zeynab Habib (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to get more education and grow as an artist”
Fikile Mthwalo (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find everything in life difficult. If music weren't my passion, I would have given it up ages ago. It must be said that a lack of resources or the environment often doesn't encourage one to be an artist. The public, friends, and others always push us to persevere in the artistic world. I think we owe it all to them.”
Malouma Meidah (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel that autonomy as an artist is very important and I have to be able to do what makes me feel excited. If I do not feel it, nobody will. So I gladly took the risk and made this album because I can!”
“I am a diverse artist. I am a musician, model, dancer, choreographer, writer, actress and film director by profession. I have been limiting my potential for too long due to fear of the unknown and always waiting for people to accept me but now I am doing it all without boundaries or feeling unsure because I can do this.”
Vimbai Zimuto (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Getting to travel a lot and meeting new people. For me, that’s the best part of the experience of being a music artist.”
Nandy (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The audience has had a taste of the new artist everywhere, but now they are looking for something older, which has now become the new,”
Cindy Sanyu (born 1985) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Music before was better’ — Cindy makes her case 1 September 2026
“At my core as an artist, what I naturally gravitate towards, and what I’m 110% good at, I would say alternative.”
Johnny Drille (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Entropy in its simplest form refers to the tendency of everything to collapse. If you smash a vase and throw the pieces in the air, they won't reland in the shape of the perfect vase. But the job of the artist is to smash the vase and then fashion something coherent out of those shards.”
William Kentridge (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was always going to be an artist or a writer, because I was talented in those areas, but also, I now think, because they held out the seductive whiff of freedom. I was always in silent rebellion against the conformity and authoritarianism of the world I was born in. (format 2006)”
Olive Senior (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Still don't like being boxed in some type of way, I'm not that kind of artist.”
Omah Lay (born 1997) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Omah Lay Is Nigeria's New Young Act to Watch. 6 July 2020, Okay Africa.
“I’m that artist that lives in a fantasy world. I just live in my head 90 per cent of the time.”
Omah Lay (born 1997) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I don’t feel loved’ – Omah Lay. 17 August 2024, Daily Post Newspaper.
“What would he give to be able to be, with a clear conscience, a homosexual, an artist, a cocaine addict - in general, an "ist", it doesn't matter what type - he even envied sportsmen's sports mania. And he was just a complicated metaphysical masochist.”
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Berlusconi is halfway between a dapper cabaret artist and a television salesman selling kitchenware, something that would have inspired and distressed poor Fellini. (1994)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michele De Lucia, Siamo alla frutta, Kaos 2005. ISBN 8879531530
“Having a glamorous mum was my first insight into changing the face with makeup. When I got a little older I found out that my aunt was a makeup artist working with superstar celebs. My mind was made up!”
Samantha Chapman (born 1977) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A 2013 interview with Beauty Sauce - An interview with Sam Chapman from Pixiwoo 2013
“I get up at 7:30 am. I do 'morning pages' - three written pages of journaling (a concept from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron). Then ten minutes of meditation and a half-hour walk into the office.”
Zoe Cunningham wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An artist who forgets the world over his work will never speak to the world through the work, may perhaps tear the work dead from himself, but will never be able to close it into its own free and necessary life.”
Adam Müller (1779–1829) first seen 1804 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Lehre vom Gegensatze, Erstes Buch, Der Gegensatz, Natur und Kunst, im Verlage der Realschulbuchhandlung, Berlin 1804, p. 95.
“I like to hear constructive criticism because it helps build me as an artist to try different things.”
Mary Homer (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are constantly discussing ingredients, sustainability, formulation advancements and new packaging innovation. Whilst we have to be conscious of costs in the given climate, launching products that don’t deliver would be detrimental to my credibility as an artist and brand founder”
Ruby Hammer (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted people to feel free to use them whenever they wanted, using their creativity rather than feeling constrained to a name. I use the tapered brush for shadow work on the eyes as well as to strategically apply concealer. Everything is designed by an artist, made for you”
Ruby Hammer (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m constantly on the lookout for new and innovative products. It can be overwhelming when you see brands with thousands of lines. As an artist, I’m constantly editing down the products I have for my kit, and I wanted to make it easy for everybody to do the same”
Ruby Hammer (born 1961) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Interview: Ruby Hammer MBE,3 February 2023
“It really is like, man, if you can be math literate — I don’t care if you’re an artist, if you’re a nurse, if you’re a janitor — math literacy is going to help you push forward in your life and just open up so many opportunities.”
Nicole M. Joseph wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank you Dr. Artist Tewodros Kassahun for supporting our effort to build the creative economy for the generation to come.”
Samrawit Fikru (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to be a published author, and my twin pursued a career as a recording artist.”
Chidi Nwaogu (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence.”
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a great moment for me to see her being given a national award as a young artist.”
Kunle Adewale (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did some work with an artist Reid Southen... and we showed that these systems... plagiarize in the image domain and now we know it's true in the musical domain... [A]ll of these... [images] came out of . They're... repeating, spitting back things that they've seen in copyrighted materials. ...There is no embarrassment or shame in these systems, or the people that are making them.”
Gary Marcus (born 1970) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: 1) Gary Marcus, Reid Southen, "Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem" (Jan 6, 2024) @ 2) About Reid Southen @ReidSouthenArt.com
“I often most often work in ways that are designed to reach as many people as possible. To me that’s sort of a basic question for every artist, “Who are you making artwork for?” If you’re just making it for yourself, that’s cool, no need to show anyone else.”
Eric Millikin (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of my fondest childhood recollections is spinning 7” vinyl records on my plastic turntable, an RCA 45-EY. Becoming a composer-musician and recording artist was a natural recourse and fruition.”
Johnny Alegre (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ensure that your pictures are classy and elegant with a touch of sexy and mystery. Also invest in a make-up artist on the day you decide to have your photo shoot, your face must capture the attention of the judges at first glance”
Tsakana Nkandih first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miss Namibia 101- Making Your Application Memorable,30 May 2014
“Journalists ask us about being a female comedian, but they don’t talk to us for the work we’re doing, you know? No one really sees Kaneez as an improv artist–just that label of female comedian. And that’s the biggest challenge. People think my brand of comedy is ”˜female comedy’ but that’s not a brand of comedy”¦ Everyone defines me as a ”˜female comedian’ and I do so much more.”
Kaneez Surka (born 1983) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kaneez Surka: ‘Everyone Defines Me as a ‘Female Comedian’; No One Really Sees Me as an Improv Artist’ Rolling Stone India (23 May 2017)
“But, along the way I realized you actually need to understand there's a lot more than just being on the stage. There's a lot involved that one does when one is an artist.”
Thoko Ntshinga (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do work that really motivates you to be a better artist. Do stuff that inspires you. That mainly comes with creating your own work. Create your own content. Tell your story because that is what everyone is doing.”
Didintle Khunou (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They call me an actor, musician, painter or writer, but I am simply an artist driven by an insatiable passion. They celebrate my work, but little do they know, I’m broken, just like them. I’m a slave to the very craft that once set me free,”
Abdul Khoza (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source