Artist Quotes

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.