Top 1200 Inspirational Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

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

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

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.

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'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?'

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

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.

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 '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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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