Artist Quotes

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Everyone is an artist.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

Everybody's an art critic.

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

A working artist is a playing artist.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.