Top 1200 Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist. I would say that the argument for grant funding is not only did my movie do some social good - hopefully it opened people's eyes - but you created a working artist. I'm hiring cinematographers, I'm hiring production designers, I'm hiring producers.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

When I like an artist, especially a female artist, I really try to support.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. You just can't stop being an artist.

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.