Artist Quotes

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every artist was first an amateur.

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

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

The artist in me cries out for design.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

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

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

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

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

I am not an artist which is 'in.'

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

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

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

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

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

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

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.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

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.

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.