Artist Quotes

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Caricature is rough truth.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

I will be an artist or nothing!

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.