Artist Quotes

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

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.