Artist Quotes

A work of art is an exaggeration.

~ André Gide

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

~ Aristotle

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

~ Jacinto Benaventey Martinez

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

~ Pitbull

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

~ Romain Rolland

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

~ Lord Acton

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

~ Norman Ralph Augustine

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

~ Bobby Darin

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

~ Willem De Kooning

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

~ Andie Macdowell

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.

~ Joseph Brodsky

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

~ Psy

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

~ Malcolm Mclaren

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

~ Georg Baselitz

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

~ Darren Criss

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

~ Gabriel Basso

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

~ Bj The Chicago Kid

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

~ Chris Brown

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

~ Christina Grimmie

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

~ Max Weinberg

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

~ R. Kelly

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

~ Donatella Versace

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

~ James Iha

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

~ Conor Maynard

For me, having walked through Times Square so many times as a broke and starving artist, as a TV star, and now having other hopes and dreams, it just represents possibility and the moment of full circle.

~ Tituss Burgess

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

~ Rita Ora

Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.

~ Luke Bryan

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

~ Jemima Kirke

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

~ George Grosz

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

~ Montgomery Clift

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

~ Ben Okri

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

~ Peter Morgan

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

~ Marc Chagall

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

~ Marina And The Diamonds

I recently discovered Artkive, a wonderful app that allows you to archive your child's artwork and create cool gifts like photo albums, mugs, mousepads, etc. It's very easy to use, and since Arabella is such a talented artist, I'm a pro!

~ Ivanka Trump

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

~ Charli Xcx

I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.

~ Charli Xcx

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

~ Anthony Bourdain

I remember telling myself when I got to start having artist opportunities, 'Let yourself be a fan, because you are. The minute that you walk in a room with Carrie Underwood, and you're too cool to freak out, you need to check yourself.' I just let myself be a fan.

~ Kelsea Ballerini

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

~ Chris Stapleton