Quotes About Artist

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

El conflicto estalla entre la moral del artista y la moral de la sociedad, no entre la estética y la moral. Pero a menudo esto no es comprendido; y entonces aparece la pérdida, la tragedia. Un artista que roba pinturas de una tienda, por ejemplo, se imagina haber tomado una decisión inevitable pero inmortal y luego se ve a sí mismo como caído en desgracia

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter, sculptor, composer, architect, or choreographer. And no one has been willing openly to posit such an artist for the universe since the American transcedentalists and before them the Medieval European philosophers.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

The difference between a successful artist and a failed one happens after the idea is hatched. The difference is the race to completion. Did you finish?

The moment you are willing to sell your time for money is the moment you cease to be the artist you're capable of being.

You must become indispensable to thrive in the new economy. The best ways to do that are to be remarkable, insightful, an artist

In the end, I think I wasn't defending anything at all. I'm an editor—an artist—and I like to make connections; I am paid to make connections. And so I wonder. Did I walk down those stairs because I was curious? Because a question had been asked (Who owned the feet that landed on my basement floor?) and I, the editor, wanted to discover the answer?

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

I've only been to one concert in my life.