Artist Quotes

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

I was more than just a moody artist.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.