Artist Quotes

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

What I can say is I think [Miley Cyrus] a fantastic artist. She's got a fantastic voice. I made a comment in the past that I really regret making because I never like being mean.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

An artist is his own fault.

The artist after all is a solitary being.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.