Artist Quotes

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally.

Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.

As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that I still love that came out in the 80s or 70s.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Re-creative artists are investigators.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?