Artist Quotes
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I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
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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 serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
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Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion.
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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This is what an artist is, she thought. This is the temperament you need to spend a whole day tinkering with a sentence, making sure that both the meaning and the music are right; to spend three or seven or ten years working on a book.
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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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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Get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.
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Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.
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I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
