Artist Quotes

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.

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.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

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.