For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

- Alan Jackson

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

- Anna Deavere Smith

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

- Anna Deavere Smith

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

- Anish Kapoor

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

- Anish Kapoor

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

- Ang Lee

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

- Ang Lee

There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.

- Anderson Paak

I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that struggle.

- Anderson Paak

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

- Alexander Payne

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

- Al Yankovic

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

- Alan Arkin

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

- Adrian Tomine

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

- Adam Lambert

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

- Annie Lennox

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

- Annie Lennox

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

- Ani DiFranco

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

- Alexander McQueen

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

- Al Yankovic

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

- Al Yankovic