Artist Quotes

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

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.

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.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

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

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.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

The industry is a menace to artists.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.