Quotes About Artist

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it has a lot of stories behind it.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.

I don't want to join politics as I am an artist, and let me remain so.

Redrum' - that joint hard. It's one of my best.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.

The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

If you really love life you're walking in the shadow of death all the time...Death is the shadow of life, and the more one is obsessed with life the more one is obsesses with death. I'm greedy for life and I'm greedy as an artist. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can't arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer's and housebreakers and low scum like that. Not an artist in death, like Edmund Alfred Bickleigh, Esq. MRCS, LRCP.

It gives an artist's impression. Which has a kind of truth.

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.

Modern art he felt should be an interpretation and not a representment of reality, and he taught the golden rule of the artist that the half is usually more expressive than the whole.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.