Quotes About Artist

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.