Artist Quotes

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

I didn't want to be an artist.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.