Artist Quotes
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.
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
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.
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.
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.
I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be open to hearing.
Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
