Artist Quotes
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
Seth Godin
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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
Saul Bellow
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You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
Eric Maisel
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
William Blake
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Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!
Ana Tzarev
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A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.
Christian Keiber
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If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.
Eric Weiner
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Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
Dana Rosemary Scallon
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I did The Fifth Element and Jean-Claude Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the one who say, why don't you do Valerian? And I said because we can't make it. And you really have to wait for Avatar and to suddenly think oh okay, maybe we can think of it. But before Avatar, just forget it.
Luc Besson
