Artist Quotes

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from various makeup artists I've been lucky enough to work with.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the ‘Oh how banal.’

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

The artist should always be the student.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.