Artist Quotes
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I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
Michael Horse -
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
Peter Wright
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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
Eugene Manlove Rhodes -
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
Albert Camus -
Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.
Brian Boyd -
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
Peter Porter -
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
Edward Sorel -
Where beauty ends is where the artist begins
Gene Youngblood
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I will be an artist or nothing!
Eugene O'Neill -
I'll be honest with you, as an independent artist … the devil is everywhere with contracts and pieces of paper and pens for you to sign with don’t know if a TV show is right for everyone.
Jesse Kramer -
I think I'm like a young black 20 something artist who's trying to who's trying to like explore their identity through music and other things.
Noname -
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
Graham Coxon Blur -
The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'
Nick Fradiani -
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
Peter O'Toole
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
Bette Davis -
I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
Darren Fletcher -
You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.
Zach Condon -
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Gerald Scarfe -
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
Seth Godin -
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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The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
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 -
The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
Sean Lennon -
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola