Artist Quotes
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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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Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
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I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
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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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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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You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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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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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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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 feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?
