Quotes About Artist

There was a time in my life when I'd only sing. In my initial years, I didn't ever speak on stage, forget acting. Eventually, my confidence as a performing artiste grew.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

It's a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I'm just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.

I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

NLE stands for No Love Entertainment. It's pretty much a brand.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

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.

A man posing for a painting.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.