Top 1200 Con Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

Love comes in all shapes, sizes, sabores y formas, y a veces hasta con un saborcito extra que no te esperas.

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

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

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

I enjoyed retirement the right way... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

"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."

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.'

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

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.