Artist Quotes
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.
We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.
The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.
The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick artists and relate to them. People who know what the market craves.
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.
Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.
Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
