Artist Quotes

I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media scrutinising everything you do.

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style, you know, you can see, you can tell there's, there's a humanity in there.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

Like books, artists have their fates.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.