Artist Quotes

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.