Artist Quotes

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.