Artist Quotes

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.