Artist Quotes

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.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

Ah! My Lord! now I understand, Oh, yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand all!

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.