Artist Quotes

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

The artist in me cries out for design.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?