Artist Quotes

• If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Opera
  • Wondering
  • Vague

• I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Guy
  • Mean

• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Waiting
  • Creative
  • Creation

• There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

  

  Wanda Koop
  • World
  • Artist
  • Assumption

• To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Artist
  • Instincts
  • Medium

• I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

  

  Regina King
  • Think
  • Lucky
  • Regard

• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Dance
  • Human
  • Invisible

• In our time photojournalists were as important as the writers. Today not so. Photojournalism is diminishing. Now everyone is a free artist, which can only be in photography. For he is taking pictures! Releases the shutter and becomes an artist. Godsend people they are, otherwise the world was doomed. They are so significant. I fear bumping into one of these celebrities walking in the street, which would be very disrespectful indeed.

  

  Ara Guler
  • Artist
  • Doomed
  • Photojournalist

• The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

  

  Alonzo King
  • Relationship
  • Artist
  • Matter

• For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

  

  William McElcheran
  • Artist
  • Mystic
  • Craftsman

• The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Artist
  • Choice
  • Consideration

• As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Change
  • Responsibility
  • Influence

• When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Label

• No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Artist
  • Child
  • Imagine

• I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Way
  • Person
  • Gifted

• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Fighting

• An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Artist
  • Slovency

• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  

  William Goldman
  • Art
  • Care
  • Praying

• The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

  

  Tom Wesselmann
  • Way
  • Artist
  • Challenges

• If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Fighting
  • Artist

• I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.

  

  Eskeerdo
  • Lose
  • Businessman
  • Boxed

• I don’t put myself on a pedestal, I put the artist on the pedestal. I’m servicing the artist. I want to give you an experience. I want you to walk around and say “I feel happy doing art for a living.” No matter what the ups and down, my job is to make the artists be the best they want to be.

  

  Terrace Martin
  • Experience
  • Artist
  • Pedestal

• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  

  Steven Seagal
  • Artist
  • Poet
  • Warrior

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