Artist Quotes

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.

I discovered there are some messages, left by other artists. I've just started to draw, say, to share the visions with them, or to start my own. Which will probably be transformed soon by others.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.