Artist Quotes

• An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Message

• Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Ideas
  • Child
  • Drawings

• I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Artist
  • Cheerleader
  • Investigators

• I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Artist
  • Car
  • Horrible

• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Country
  • Play
  • Couple

• We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Art
  • Ends
  • Famine

• Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

  

  David Bowie
  • Artist
  • Feels
  • Radical

• l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Suffering
  • Painting
  • Wells

• Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Creative
  • Observation

• All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artist
  • Philosopher
  • Explorer

• As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.

  

  Will Cotton
  • Artist
  • Yourself
  • Tired

• The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual feelings you were going through during that time.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Realize
  • Focusing

• When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

  

  Henry Flynt
  • Artist
  • Competing

• Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mean

• I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Reality
  • Artist
  • Poor

• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  

  Nigel Lythgoe
  • People
  • Chance
  • Impossible

• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.

  

  Norman Bethune
  • Times
  • Product
  • Ancestry

• It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I instinctively was drawn toward it, and received a lot of encouragement.

  

  Arik Roper
  • Artist
  • Path
  • Encouragement

• An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Men
  • Strong

• Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Given
  • Solo
  • Blondie

• An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Way
  • Artist
  • Painting

• It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Great
  • Done
  • Scary

• An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Artist
  • Slovency

• The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

  

  Brett Weston
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Camera

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