Artist Quotes

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.