Artist Quotes
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As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Paul Emsley
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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
William James
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
Carter Ratcliff
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
David Hammons
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Give shape, artist! don't talk!
Your poem be but a breath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I will be an artist or nothing!
Eugene O'Neill
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
Albert Camus
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
Hayao Miyazaki
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As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.
Jonathan Mannion
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
Rebecca Makkai
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The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Lois McMaster
