Artist Quotes

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

As a matter of fact I don't know of one artist as long as I've been alive that they put in regular rotation in Boston who wasn't already on a major label with a huge deal behind them.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

All my works are games, serious game.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.