Artist Quotes

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.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.