Artist Quotes

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

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.