Artist Quotes

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

The job of the artist is to point at things.

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.

Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely different way.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.