Artist Quotes

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

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.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

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.

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

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.