Artist Quotes

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.