Artist Quotes

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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

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

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.

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

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

an artist is always seeking revelation.

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.

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.

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.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.