The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
Marina Abramovic
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread... →
An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's... →
Chinua Achebe
Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a... →
Yolanda Adams