Be An Artist Quotes

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

I can look at you and say, 'I'm gonna be the biggest artist in the world' because, at the end of the day, it's about the trust I have in God. He's already shown me that I'm gonna fulfil my destiny.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.