Artist Quotes
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Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.
Banks -
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
Fetty Wap -
Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.
Christina Aguilera -
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Laura Dern -
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman -
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero -
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
Oscar Wilde -
The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
Sam Smith -
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
Artie Shaw -
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
Jay-Z -
I view myself as a male artist.
Bebe Rexha -
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
Eddie Trunk
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
Sam Hunt -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
Madi Diaz -
I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
Garth Brooks
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
Nelly -
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
W. H. Auden -
I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
Jack Kirby -
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
Garry Shandling