Artist Quotes

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

What you do, you don't think of as a product

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

Creative artists have great passion.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.