Artist Quotes

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

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

The eye altering, alters all.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how do we fix Africa?'

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.