Artist Quotes

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?

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.