Artist Quotes
-
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
-
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.
-
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
-
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
-
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
-
People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
-
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
-
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
-
Be the artist you were born to be.
-
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
-
One of the coolest moments for me is still when Kenny G came back to a venue to find me and personally tell me that he loved my song "Void of a Legend" and had watched the video several times. It's the ultimate feeling to get feedback like that from an artist you look up to.
-
My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.
-
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.
-
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
-
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
-
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
-
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.
-
I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'
-
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
-
The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
-
The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.
-
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
-
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.
-
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
