Quotes about artist
artist birth inevitable
With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic Mel Brooks
artist swings together
Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
artist giving gone
In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone". Mary Chapin Carpenter
artist car insanity
He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles. Martin Amis
artist cooking acting
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things. Mark Salling
artist color lines
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture. Piet Mondrian
artist political relation
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist. Philippe Falardeau
artist together architect
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist. Peter Zumthor
artist self important
It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say. Peter Ackroyd
artist tv-shows feelings
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. Simon Cowell
artist rights parent
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. Tipper Gore
artist style nicknames
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger. Tinie Tempah
artist japan fans
In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other. Tite Kubo
artist talking political
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant. Robert Adams
artist trying records
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.
artist obscurity use
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. Robert A. Heinlein
artist mind lucky
Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely. Rihanna
artist rocks clubs
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.' Richie Havens
artist creative obscurity
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. Tim O'Reilly
artist obscurity problem
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
artist strange classic
This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity. Tilda Swinton
artist logos graphic
I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life. Tim Allen
artist mysterious century
Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it. Steven Shainberg
artist trying avant-garde
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much. Steven Soderbergh
artist origin-of-life doe
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. Toni Morrison
artist silent dread
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
artist interesting actors
The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do. Toby Jones
artist want way
There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me. Tim Dorsey
artist inevitable tragic
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. Sam Francis
artist lasts
I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'. Russell Means
artist
The artists are now big brands. Russell Simmons
artist people performing
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.
artist worry house
Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.