Top 1200 Performing Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an 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 didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.'

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

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper 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 believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

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

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

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

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

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