Artist Quotes

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

The artist is justified by his art.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

I am a tragically bad artist.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.