Artist Quotes

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.