Be An Artist Quotes

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

I listen to other artists, cuz its like every artist wanna hear something that they never heard before.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

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

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

I was poking fun at myself most of all.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.