Artist Quotes

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

I am just an artist.

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.