Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Genet

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every artists wants to be applauded

Jillian Mayer

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

Jill Scott

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Jerry Harrison

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

Jerry Hall

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Estelle

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

Ernst Junger

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

Ezra Koenig

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Etta James

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

Erykah Badu

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen

Erykah Badu

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

Erykah Badu

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

Erykah Badu

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

Erykah Badu

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Erykah Badu

We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.

Erykah Badu

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Florence King

One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

Florence Welch

I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

Flannery O'Connor

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Fetty Wap

Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

Fetty Wap

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

Ferran Adria

A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.

Henry Moore

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

Henry Moore

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

Henry Miller

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

Henry Miller

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

Henry Miller

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Henry Miller

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.