Artist Quotes

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

All artists are two-headed calves.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.

The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.