Artist Quotes

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.

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.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

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.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

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.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

I realized what an artist is and what it is to be an artist.

The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

One genius has made many clever artists.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.