Artist Quotes - Page 8

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.