Artist Quotes

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

People become artists out of despair.

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.