Artist Quotes

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

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.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'