Artist Quotes

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

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

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

The artist in me cries out for design.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.