Artist Quotes

• Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Night
  • Fear
  • Hate

• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Passionate
  • Protest
  • Unselfish

• I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Form

• No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Effort
  • Fate
  • Splendour

• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Music
  • Economy
  • Fan

• A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Situation
  • Impossible

• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Death
  • Artist
  • Overconfidence

• As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • America
  • Song

• I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Die
  • Crazy
  • Never

• Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Spirit
  • Christ

• Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Risk
  • Creative
  • Explore

• The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Quality

• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • World
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Child
  • Policymakers
  • Milestones

• The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Art

• I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Words
  • Artist
  • Just

• I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Talent
  • Nurture

• The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Limits

• When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Artist
  • Practice
  • Inspiring

• I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Deep

• I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Music
  • True
  • Sound

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