Artist Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

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.

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

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

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.