Artist Quotes

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

Success is different for every artist - I get psyched when i help realise their vision etc.

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.