Artist Quotes

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Artist awake or be forever fallen.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

We are artists, because God is.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.