Artist Quotes

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

I am not an artist which is 'in.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.