Artist Quotes

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

The early firings contained many stones.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

Many artists give up after a while.

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.