Be An Artist Quotes

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.

Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and heaviest emotions you can pull out as an entertainer and as a singer.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

I remember music first artists second.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.