Artist Quotes

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist.

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.