Artist Quotes - Page 99

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good at creating something new all the time. But for me it's about the consistency in my story. Because after all, I'm the protagonist in everything. All the songs are about my life so naturally there will be some connection because I'm still the same person I've always been.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.