Artist Quotes

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

Every artist, to me, should know why they're doing what they're doing. You shouldn't create simply because it sounds good to you. That's not a real response to me.

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.

In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

What I'm good at is making art.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

I've always been a fine artist.

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