Quotes About Artist

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.