Top 1200 Best Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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!

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone ever asks about is the persecution. It may well be that's the last thing in the world they want to talk about. There were many years in which every journalist in the world wanted to talk to me, but nobody wanted to talk to me about my work. That felt deeply frustrating because I felt there was an attempt to stifle me as an artist. The best revenge I could have was to write.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.

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

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.'

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

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

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.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

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'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

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

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.

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?'

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

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

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.

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 early on showed interest in the arts and I used to say, 'I'm an artist, I'm an artist.'

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

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

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.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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

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.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

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.

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.