Artist Quotes

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Painting completed my life.

I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause that was my generation, so Tupac was mine.

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.