Artist Quotes

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.