Artist Quotes

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Every man is an artist.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.