Quotes About Artist

As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able to send two girls to a Black Girls Empowerment camp.

I've worked towards self-development as an aspiring artiste. I've been most passionate about dancing and acting, so I have followed it obsessively.

I feel every artist has a certain amount of fan following.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I am a freelance artiste.

I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.

That's all I ever wanted to do in my life was music. And because I was a failed artist, I was actually able to help somebody accomplish their dream was, you know, definitely fulfilling.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

I was only pretending to be the underpaid, duplicitous, ineffective, struggling teacher of immigrant French. The real Suzanne was the lover and muse of a brilliant artist.

He said that you were the ultimate artist at probing the soul, your own soul first.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

And when once in a while some leisurely passer-by stopped, made merry over the old figure on the board, and spoke of swindling, that was in its own way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but the world was cheating him of his reward.

I really like Holly Williams. I've said that a bunch, but her song 'Drinkin',' I just love it.

Well, I love Take That but l've always been partial to Robbie Williams' songs.

To be able to do a song with Kanye West and then a video with Hype Williams who directed the video, that's a highlight of any artist's' career.

You never hear a country-western station saying 'We have old school artist Willie Nelson in the house.' They say 'We have the legendary Willie Nelson.'

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.