Artist Quotes

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.