Quotes About Artist

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary. That's my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don't think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person.

Gulzarbhai is a very special artist.

My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

The nature of being an artist in any field, but specifically in comedy, is that almost as soon as you finish something you hate it, and it feels dated, and not your best work.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

As a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.