Artist Quotes

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.

The artist by his work is known.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.