Artist Quotes
-
Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.
-
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
-
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
-
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
-
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
-
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
-
An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.
-
I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
-
I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.
-
People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.
-
Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.
-
When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
-
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.
-
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
-
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
-
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
-
don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
-
My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk...' and I was sold!
-
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
-
Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!
-
I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
-
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
-
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.
-
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
