Artist Quotes

• As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

  

  Nick Littlemore
  • Artist
  • Concepts
  • Cognitive

• My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

  

  David Peace
  • Father
  • Matthew
  • Bradman

• When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • World
  • Rebel
  • Stupidity

• I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

  

  Sean Kingston
  • Should
  • Box
  • Categorized

• I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Revolution

• I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

  

  Akira Toriyama
  • Artist
  • Manga
  • Scrutinized

• A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Study
  • Creative

• The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

  

  Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
  • Artist
  • Generosity
  • Hallmark

• I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.

  

  Wrabel
  • Artist
  • Balance
  • Songwriter

• Regardless of any feedback. I love being a solo artist and having creative control. But it can be very nourishing and informative and flex very different creative muscles to work for someone else. You are essentially employed by the director. I love the challenge of that.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Creative
  • Challenges
  • Feedback

• If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

  

  Carl Andre
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

  

  Bono U2
  • Poet
  • Sing
  • Cannibal

• The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Artist
  • Craftsman
  • No Good

• The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artist
  • Lies
  • Convince

• We me and my husband both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Family
  • Childhood
  • Singer

• Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Education
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Done
  • Genius

• The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Music
  • Age
  • Artist

• 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!

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Women
  • Christians
  • Bounds

• A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Artist
  • Intuition
  • Lead

• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Figures
  • Spell
  • Sculptor's Hand

• I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.

  

  Stephanie Young Hwang
  • Sound
  • Message
  • Solo

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