Artist Quotes
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Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.
Amanda Craig
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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David Bowie
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I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.
Stephen Fry
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I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
Estelle
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
Willem de Kooning
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
Whoopi Goldberg
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You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
Chilly Gonzales
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You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.
Sarah Dessen
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
Ernst Gombrich
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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
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Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
Carl Gardner
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I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.
Darren Fletcher
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
Wanda Koop
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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
John Prine
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
Erwin McManus
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This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.
Tilda Swinton
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Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us.
Astra Taylor
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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
Dolly Parton
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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Sandra Bernhard
