Artist Quotes

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 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.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.