Top 1200 Best Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market will reward you. If it raises the value of our collection, we go for it.

Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

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.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it's a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can't hear the artist as well anymore. It's very important to me to be invisible.

I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot more confidence in myself.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

The nature of being an artist in any field, but specifically in comedy, is that almost as soon as you finish something you hate it, and it feels dated, and not your best work.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

Dude, okay, so you're gay. You may consider that to be different, but you're not different. You have two jobs. You have to go out there and be the best artist that you can be. You've got to go out there and be the best songwriter that you can be. You simply have to be great at what you do and then your dreams will fall into place. Who you are is just a part of that dream, a part of your story.

If you're not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of you.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.