Artist Quotes
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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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.
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I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
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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.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
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I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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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.
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That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
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What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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Most people's lives are governed by willpower. An artist is someone who has no will.
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I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
