Quotes about artist
artist awakening ruthless
The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. Steven Pressfield
artist issues mystery
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
artist world trouble
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.
artist modest dictation
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
artist uprising skulls
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
artist meeting-someone looks
In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing? In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can't look is that place he must: within.
artist entrepreneur want
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
artist self rejection
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
artist faces demon
Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
artist groups imagine
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. Steven Morrissey
artist years singing
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.
artist people cents
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
artist towns young-writers
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. Steven Curtis Chapman
artist two mystery
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. Sue Grafton
artist quality life-is
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. Steven Van Zandt
artist quality different
The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
artist bob influential
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. Robbie Robertson
artist people upset
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business. Rico Love
artist careers people
I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.
artist personality stories
First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain. Richard Sherman
artist giving canvas
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. Reed Hundt
artist musical
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical. Sammy Hagar
artist opposites solo
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
artist immature aliens
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. T. S. Eliot
artist careers creative
I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability. Sylvester Stallone
artist funky eclectic
Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist. Suzy Bogguss
artist needs intention
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. Susan Sontag
artist example despise
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
artist hands eras
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
artist eclectic-style taste
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse. Taylor Dane
artist firsts sound
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
artist mind awesome-things
The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind. Rose McGowan
artist helping conflict
Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue. Romesh Gunesekera