An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio.
My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
