Artist Quotes

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.

Be the artist you were born to be.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

God is just another artist, like me.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs.