Artist Quotes

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

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

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.

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

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.

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

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

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.

One genius has made many clever artists.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.