Artist Quotes

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For man is by nature an artist.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.