Artist Quotes

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A truly great artist has many talents.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

There's no map for being an artist.

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

It shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you just need to be great at what you do. If you're an artist, be a great artist.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.