Artist Quotes

There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Snoop [Dog] is my favorite artist of all time. He's someone I look up to.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

The artist must say it without saying it.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.