Artist Quotes
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
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Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.
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I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.
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I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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The artist must be ecstatic about something.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
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It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.
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I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.
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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
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I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.
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The artist has tremendous power to change the world.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
