Artist Quotes

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

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.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

The great artist is the simplifier.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.