Artist Quotes
Most Famous Artist Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best artist quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Artist Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.
It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.
It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
Mustard believes in me so much. It's good to have a mentor that's been through it. Even though he's a producer, he's been a new artist.
I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return of beloved '60s soul artist Don Bryant and pop star Kesha.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.
TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.
For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.
It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.
As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.
Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.
I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted to record a track.
I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.
Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but it will come out.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.
Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.
I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.
In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.
The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.
As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.
Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
For me, Sundance always felt big. It's not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen.
To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.
Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She was just so raw and had her unique sound; she paired jazz with pop and was so soulful at the same time. So I pulled from her a lot in the beginning.
A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist.
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.
But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
Guys, we are trying to share Unique Artist Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.
