Artist Quotes

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

The artist must create himself or be born again.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.