Browsing Topic Best Artist Quotes

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

There’s a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want.

Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.

It’s easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that’s really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.

I think it’s shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don’t want my name anywhere near another brand.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don’t make it any harder on yourself.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

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.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I don’t want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don’t already agree with him.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

An artist’s working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don’t have time to listen to other artists all that much.

What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.