Top 1200 Great Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great 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.

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

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.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

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

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.

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.

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

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.

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

Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'

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?

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.

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.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

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 think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

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.

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

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

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

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 a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

"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."

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 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?'

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

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

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

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

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

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.

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

Luckily, with 'Insecure,' we have really great writers who get it and work hard to give Kelli layers for me to explore as an artist.

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

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

[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great literature even to those who have never known it performed. The same is evidently not true of Dylan.

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

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

Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.

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

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