Artist Quotes

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.