Quotes About Artist

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the artist is almost sure to end up by becoming a bellyacher, constantly complaining because the public does not rush forward at once to proclaim him.

Others besides practicing artists have imaginations. But most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic!

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

it is only a very rare artist that is as good as his art.

it is only n very rare artist that is as good as his art.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.