Artist Quotes
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
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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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Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
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An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.
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I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
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Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
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I approach mastering a little differently than some of my peers: I spend a lot of time creating a dialogue with the artist and the producers and mixers to try and get what they really are looking for.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).
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My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
