Artist Quotes

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Artists are always young.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.