Artist Quotes

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

Everything is there: the love of Art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

I grew up with artists.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.