Quotes of: Artist Keyword

Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.

Darnell Lamont Walker

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

John Legend

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

Rupert Friend

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

Terrence Howard

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

Malcolm Wilson

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Aaron Carter

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

Aasif Mandvi

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of ...

The Critic as Artist

I do believe most curators - maybe I'm only speaking for myself here - want to be artists on some level. Curators must have an innate interest in what an artist makes. And they certainly have their opinions and criticisms, and the always ask, "How wo...

New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persu...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles and he has a different role as society changes, and in different societies . . . He can be a seer at times, and in the eighteenth centu...

Peter Taylor

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's k...

Samuel R. Delany

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

In the City of Shy Hunters

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

The Black Banner

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

LeRoy Neiman

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Siri Hustvedt

Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.

The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

Killosophy

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.

The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales