Artist Quotes
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
Eve Babitz
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
Eric Maisel
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
William Golding
Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
Will Gompertz
I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
Estelle
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Terry Gross
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.
Brandy
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
Eric Heisserer
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
Terence McKenna
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
William Faulkner
