Artist Quotes

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

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.

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.