Quotes About Artist

I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

'Awwsome' was a different type of song for an artist like me, but it's still a true song. I was talking street stuff, but I was feeling awesome.

I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

I saw it all of a sudden. That whether I liked it or not, the survivor and the artist was me, not her. We're all conditioned to think of our children as more important than us, you know, and to live vicariously through them. All of a sudden I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but I'm alive now. And I can live deliberately. I've paid the price, I've done the work, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.

The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible call that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without

There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.

Un artista es alguien que puede iluminar una habitación oscura. Yo nunca voy a encontrar la diferencia entre el pase de Pelé a Carlos Alberto en la final de 1970 y la poesía de Rimbaud.

An artist's job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

The truth? I saw an artist locking herself in the same prison cell that had almost killed her. Boring is also dangerous. Idle hands, et cetera.

I can't really do much with Nietzsche. He is more an artist than a philosopher; he doesn't have the crystal-clear understanding of Schopenhauer. Of course, I value Nietzsche as a genius. He writes possibly the most beautiful language that German literature has to offer us today, but he is not my guide.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I believe that every artist has a responsibility to use their platform to raise awareness about issues that are important to them.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

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

Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school.