Be An Artist Quotes

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing this because it's my destiny.

It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a crazy career and you might not make it. In my case, it kind of happened.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.