Artist Quotes

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.