Be An Artist Quotes

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

The eye is the best of artists.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

New arts destroy the old.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I was more than just a moody artist.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea . But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a persona for the artwork with their honesty. That's really good.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.