Artist Quotes
The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.
Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if you're singing properly, depending on who you're mimicking.
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.
For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.
I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move.
Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.
Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.
Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.
So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.
Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.
