Artist Quotes

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific 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.

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

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

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.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

An artist is an explorer.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.