Artist Quotes

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

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.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.