Artist Quotes

You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I did a Bounty Killer, Lexxus, Spragga Benz, Sizzla, a whole lot of artist.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.