Artist Quotes

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists.

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient.

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

Not every artist is a role model.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.