Quotes About Artist

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their favourite artist play live.

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I was a street performer for two years.