Artist Quotes

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing otherwise why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.