Artist Quotes - Page 10

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.