Artist Quotes

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.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop does not count as an artist.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Great artists need great clients.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

The best artists are gone now.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The role of the artist is to not look away.