Artist Quotes

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up a lot of doors for other artists to feel free to do that type of stuff.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.