Artist Quotes - Page 117

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

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

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.