Artist Quotes

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

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.

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.

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.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

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.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

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.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

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.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.