Quotes About Artist

I would myself argue that nowadays, at least, it is impossible to say it is just one thing, rather, art has become a field for play and experiment with the very idea of value – but all pretty much agree that, were an artist to be seen as simply in it for the money, his work would be worth less of it.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

He was also talented in other directions: he played the violin well and was an accomplished artist, exhibiting at, among others, the Chicago Art Institute.

but I'm going to need a team: an artist, a couple programmers, and a manager, because I don't want to sit there interfacing with management all day; I want to program.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: 'Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.' 'And I said, 'She is? Oh my God!'

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

God is just another artist, like me.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.