Artist Quotes

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.