Artist Quotes

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Get it out of your historic head.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.