Artist Quotes

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.

I didn't want to be an artist.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

My dream is to save them from nature.

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.