Artist Quotes - page 100

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. (Upton Sinclair)
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity. View quote
Tom Wolfe
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
"Producers like Organized Noize mix samples and live instruments really well, but for me, it almost feels like a cop-out, because I'm a collage artist. It's like, 'Damn, if only I could find this one part. Well, maybe if I just had somebody paint it, and then I'll put it out.' That almost feels like cheating. Lots of times, I have trouble finding bass lines, because it's not very often on a record that there are good open bass lines. Sometimes I wish I could just have somebody come in and do what I want him to do on a bass line. It would be so easy. But what I do just keeps things much more challenging, I guess." [3]. View quote
DJ Shadow
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. View quote
Josh Groban
Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too. View quote
Albert Finney
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led. View quote
PJ Harvey
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. View quote
Anaïs Nin
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue - that I had to do the job myself. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. (Anaïs Nin)
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist. View quote
DMX (rapper)
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. View quote
Erykah Badu
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. View quote
André Maurois
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist. View quote
Tom Hanks
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
If he achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine. The artist spends a lifetime in pursuing the things that haunt him, in having his mind "teased" by them, in trying to get these conceptions down on paper exactly as they are to him and not in conventional poses supposed to reveal their character. View quote
Willa Cather
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. View quote
Grace Slick
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies. View quote
Kate Chopin
Now I have no idea how this has come about - probably a rumour spread by my enemies - but apparently there's a general belief among some sections of the surf community that I am a bit of a drop-in artist. (Tom Carroll)
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. View quote
Cyril Connolly
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century. View quote
Muriel Spark
I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack. View quote
Shirley Manson