Artist Quotes - Page 69

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.