Artist Quotes

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Great artists have no country.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.