Artist Quotes

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

At moments we are all artists.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

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