Be An Artist Quotes

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

The more far-out artists, the better.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

All Artists are Anarchists.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

The artist is called a creator.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.