Artist Quotes - page 97

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile. (Marilyn Manson)
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters. View quote
Marilyn Manson
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. View quote
Marilyn Manson
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. View quote
Marilyn Manson
When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. View quote
Matt LeBlanc
No, I don't think it's correct to define my writing as fables. There are themes, yes, but I'm not trying to offer some categorical cure-it-all to the problematic situation of Man. I'm neither theologian nor a politician. My concern in my first novel, The Zoo, was loss of inner life. After long years of writer's block, the novel just exploded out of me. Thirty days. All too quickly to really do it justice. With my second novel, The Nihilesthete, I was taken by the spiritual diminishment and the all-pervasive powerlessness that I felt was taking over our culture which in turn prevented and inverted my lead character's full expression. Such is the motive-force behind almost banal, cerebralized cruelties he harbours upon his arch-enemy, the artist, Brodski. View quote
Richard Kalich
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape. View quote
Henry Miller
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. View quote
Henry Miller
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. View quote
Tracy Chapman
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in...That's what everyone should do with their lives...stand up for what they believe in, or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else. View quote
Tracy Chapman
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing. (William S. Burroughs)
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. View quote
Seth MacFarlane
Jonny goes on and on about this. Anybody who claims they write for *themselves is a liar. Everyone has an audience in mind. The only reason any artist would carry on is in the faith that one day somebody would see or hear their work. View quote
Thom Yorke
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. View quote
John Frusciante
Life is more difficult for the serious artist. Time is money, but also money is money. View quote
William Gibson
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. View quote
Brooke Shields
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. View quote
Wesley Snipes
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a copy, which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppo. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living as seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid. View quote
Mike Shinoda
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else. (Rufus Wainwright)
As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. View quote
Nick Cave
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. View quote
Noel Gallagher