Artist Quotes

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.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.