Artist Quotes

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

For man is by nature an artist.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.

When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.