Artist Quotes

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Knowing the artist helps you appreciate the work; seeing the passion they put into it and the emotions they are wrestling with.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

I didn't want to be an artist.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.