Artist Quotes - page 17

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career. (Sarah Gadon)
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. View quote
Agnes de Mille
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? View quote
Laura Dern
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that. View quote
James Bay
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma. View quote
John Maeda
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. View quote
Giorgio Morandi
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. View quote
Ziggy Marley
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run. (Saif Ali Khan)
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists. View quote
Jack Kirby
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer. View quote
David Mazzucchelli
I just want to be written about as a normal artist. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
An artist is his own fault. View quote
John O'Hara
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist. View quote
Helen Reddy
I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist. View quote
Larry Rivers
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings. View quote
Rainn Wilson
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. (Alfred Sisley)
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. View quote
Alfred Sisley
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today. View quote
Pete Townshend
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear. View quote
Thomas F. Wilson
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. View quote
William Gaddis