Quotes About Artist

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

È acrobata come nei vecchi tempi era poetessa, perché la forma particolare dei suoi polmoni la obbliga a scegliersi un mestiere che stia tra cielo e terra.

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior

The perception is that an artist has to suffer. I've suffered enough in my lifetime.

Have you seen the world lately, McGrath? The cruelty, the lack of connection? If you're an artist, I'm sure you can't help but wonder what it's all for. We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop .

Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience's longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.

It's a self-portrait and the artist is in love.

Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman — not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen — though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.