Artist Quotes

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I am no artist - please come and help me.

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.

I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

I watched and learned about music as a member of Big Bang. Of course it's important to show my charms as an artist by showing my abilities but that's what our solo activities are for.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.