Artist Quotes
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.
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I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living
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Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.
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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.
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One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
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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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My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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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 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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... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
