Artist Quotes

If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say "star struck" as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.