Artist Quotes

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I am an artist, not a dressmaker.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.