Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
~ Denis Waitley
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
~ Chuck Close
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
~ Lou Reed
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
~ Carroll O'connor
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
~ Willem De Kooning
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
~ Kate Chopin
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
~ Jodie Foster
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
~ James Taylor
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
~ Elia Kazan
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
~ Havelock Ellis
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~ André Gide
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
~ Cyril Connolly
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
~ Paul Valéry
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
~ Franz Liszt
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
~ Keith Haring
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
~ Novalis
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
~ Edward Steichen
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
~ Maurice Chevalier
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
~ Edgard Varèse
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
~ Henry Ossawa Tanner
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
~ Alfred Sisley
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
~ Richard Prince
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
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.
~ Mike Shinoda
Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'
~ Charlie Puth
I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.
~ Patti Smith
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
~ Drew Barrymore
I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.
~ Jojo
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
~ Lukas Foss
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
~ Rod Taylor
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
~ Asap Rocky
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~ Paul Robeson
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
~ Yayoi Kusama
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
~ Émile Zola
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
~ John Scofield
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
~ Sam Hunt
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
~ David Lynch
