Artist Quotes - Page 72

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top.

It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.