Quotes About Artist

I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Becoming an artist and finding my way, I did kind of veer off into different genres and none of them ever fit.

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Comedy is more an art of body language and gestures - it is more a performance of an artist than the lines given to him/her.

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.

Actually my favorite singer of all time is Bjork. And my favorite band of all time is They Might Be Giants.

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

I got £30 for my first gig, cash in hand.

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in gigs.

I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

My manager, my band members, we're all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so sheltered he will lose touch with what the fans want.

When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a good father... hard for me to be a good artist.

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

I might sound like the weird artist hippy girl or whatever, but I don't have a complaint about what jazz is or what I'm doing with music. And that's more of a philosophy on my life. I could find things that maybe could shift or change, but ultimately, it's like that's not a good way to live our lives and think about what we do.

All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Glory is to God what style is to an artist. Glory is what God looks like when, for the time being, all you have to look at Him with is a pair of eyes.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.