Artist Quotes - Page 85

Go with your gut every single time. It’s never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you need to do this or do that. Your gut is your artist and who you are as a person and what makes you special, and what makes you an interesting performer. Never try to be something you’re not.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.