Top 1200 Performing Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

I like when I do interviews with an artist and they may not have liked an artist at first but after they see my interview they'll like them better.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer.

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a

Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

A working artist is a playing artist.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

Leger was not only the first artist I ever met but also the first pop artist, and he blew our minds.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything I've left out. I feel like all the major movements of her life are there.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.