Artist Quotes
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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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'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.
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The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
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I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
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Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
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But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
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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.
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It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.
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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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My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
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Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
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As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
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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 artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
