Artist Quotes
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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
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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.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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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.
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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
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I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
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I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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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.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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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.
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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...
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.
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An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
