Artist Quotes

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.