Artist Quotes

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.