Artist Quotes

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

I'd say my style is all me, It's different from other artist even in my city or outside of my city.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.