Artist Quotes

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.