Jack White Artist Quotations

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.