Artist Quotes · Page 65

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

— Frank Ocean

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

— Andrew Levitas

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

— Miley Cyrus

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

— Irving Stone

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

— Dorothy Parker

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max…

— Max Ernst

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna…

— Matthew Ramsey

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty…

— Daniel Gillies

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist…

— Thomas Rhett

With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in…

— Rick Ross

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is…

— Deepak Chopra

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss.…

— Kathy Baker

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

— Yoko Ono

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

— Jose Feliciano

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

— Wadada Leo Smith

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

— Molly Crabapple

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

— Anonymous

For an artist it is important to show what your mood is at that particular moment.

— Sergei Polunin

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

— Frank Gehry

I always look for opportunities where I can prove my mettle as a versatile artist.

— Bhuvan Bam

I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.

— DJ Premier

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

— Steve Purdy

Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.

— Mike Curran

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

— Talib Kweli

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

— Norman Rockwell

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

— Justin Bieber

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

— Thia Megia

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

— John Zorn

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

— Marc Chagall

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

— Richard Diebenkorn

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

— Common