Artist Quotes

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

A great artist is never poor.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.