Be An Artist Quotes

An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the subconscious focus of their entire lives, it often is repeated.

It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

If you want to be a stand-up comedian or an artist, you move to New York.

I can't really see myself as an artist.

My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

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