Quotes on Artist

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.