Top 1200 Graffiti Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I dreamed of being an artist.

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

I'm definitely a cult artist.

I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So much is wantin' to go back, but I still gotta move forward. But I think it's just that I'm my worst critic at all times, you know? And when I make somethin', it may be five or ten cuts later before I actually call it what it is. I've always been that kind of artist. I'm gonna put myself through the sweat for it, because I think, as an artist, that's what made me iller, is the fact that I didn't wanna just put out anything and everything. It's just a process, you know what I mean?

The artist is always beginning.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

I am just an artist.

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

An artist must be a reactionary

You think you're an artist; prove it

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

The artist is called a creator.

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

I was never a good artist.

Be the artist you were born to be.

If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.

The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.

Jeremih is a dope artist.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

No artist tolerates reality.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

I am not an artist which is 'in.'

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Every man is an artist.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

I am not an artist which is 'in.

For man is by nature an artist.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

The great artist is the simplifier.

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

The visual world has blown up, the world of writing has blown up; there's so much text online. Anyone and everyone can express themselves. It's a lot to think about as an artist. Also, that the persona of the artist might actually be of some importance. When I came of age, it was important to be quiet and hang back and be mysterious. I knew artists who didn't even want to show up at their own openings. They never wanted to have their picture taken, didn't want to autograph a book, didn't want to answer a question. I came of age in a world where it was "Let the work speak for itself."

Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely - but she plays a Miss Cleo-esque TV psychic who's also kind of a bullshit artist. One of the most triumphant character turns in the movie is when she realizes that even though she's a bullshit artist, she does have something to offer. She helps save the day at the end of the movie.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't mean there's never any overlap. You learn things in one area and bring them into another area. But giving a speech against racism is not the same as writing a novel. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

I'm basically a starving artist.

I am an honest artist.

I do consider myself an artist.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

The confident artist is a fool.

I am only an artist.

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

Create, artist, do not talk.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.