Artist Quotes

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

I'm working in my mind.

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The artist must know how far to go too far.

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Guillermo del Toro. He's in his pure artist's stroke. He's just hitting it out of the park. I would go anywhere to work with him. He's a real artist.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

Art is not disposable.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.