Artist Quotes
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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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.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.
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The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
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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.
