Artist Quotes

Artist Quote of the day

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.