Artist Quotes
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
Becky G
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde
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I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence
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You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
Jay-Z
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
Oscar Isaac
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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
H. L. Mencken
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Oscar Wilde
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
Adam Peaty
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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I just wanna be a good artist.
Kat Graham
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Willem de Kooning
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.
Namie Amuro
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My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
Zach Galifianakis
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas