Top 1200 Great Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

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

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

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

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

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

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

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

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

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

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

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

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

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

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

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