Artist Quotes
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
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.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.