Artist Quotes
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
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.
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.
'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.