Artist Quotes

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

I never considered myself a performance artist.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

True artists scorn nothing.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

Artists have to survive.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.