Quotes About Artist

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and fight injustices and fight violence, and then being an artist, which is a very different strain.

I feel like when it comes to rap - like, real rap music - and knowing the pioneers of rap, I feel like there's no competition for me in the NBA. Other guys can rap, but they're not as invested or as deep into actual music as I am and always have been. I think that might be what the difference is. I'm more wanting to be an artist.

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

When I met the people at Warner, they were very excited about my style and making me into this big theatrical artist.

I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

Presently, I really admire Rebecca Warren, the artist. She continues to keep creating wonderful sculpture. And I met her, and she is really cool.

There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceress.' There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, 'Look, you don't want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.'

Like a child at bedtime who insists she's not tired, Celia's provocation was all unproductive, almost self-negating. Sometimes I thought this was just her scorpion nature, but other times it seemed to me that she had settled on this pose purposefully, out of some dimly perceived, horribly misplaced idea that the job of an artist was to hide her light under the darkest bushel possible and wait for a dedicated acolyte to be drawn to it like a clairvoyant moth.

There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

While one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives one can, as artist, choose one's "ancestors."

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Few people in the industry, or even in the inside your father's organization, know it, but today Mike Koyama, as a creative artist, is a totally artificial being. To maintain our standing with the listening public, however, we need a human figurehead.

My music was liked by the people.

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.