Artist Quotes

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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

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.

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

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.

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.

The artist must say it without saying it.

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

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.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.