Quotes about artist
artist somewhere-else world
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place. James Lee Burke
artist innocence-and-experience ethics
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. John Scott
artist sometimes painter
I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. Martin Mull
artist expression individual
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. Mark Tobey
artist space essentials
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
artist today problem
Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
artist records way
I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way. Nick Lowe
artist careers people
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
artist numbers appeals
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
artist social-service visual-art
We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?" Nick Cave
artist records good-records
You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
artist expression people
I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression. Nick Carter
artist hands should
An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard. Nam June Paik
artist order labels
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. Missy Elliot
artist tv-shows people
As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs. Pauly Shore
artist makers
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish. Philip Guston
artist iconic
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did. Pharrell Williams
artist like-you used
You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.
artist love-making knows
I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
artist hands ideas
Michael Jackson was extraordinary, When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us. Martin Scorsese
artist giants fit
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
artist sight cinema
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
artist world problem
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions. Marjane Satrapi
artist doubt technique
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. Marianne Moore
artist done want
I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate]. Mariah Carey
artist imagination people
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not. Sherwood Anderson
artist together kind
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s. Sheryl Crow
artist wish scientist
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. Nicolas Berggruen
artist making-money these-days
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days. Norah Jones
artist love-and-respect gaga
Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect. Nile Rodgers
artist feel-good looks
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
artist human-nature realist
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. Nikolai Berdyaev
artist giving mind
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. Nikola Tesla