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What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws? — John Irving

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist. — Ted Orland

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever. — Susan Griffin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. — Courtney Love

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond. — Robert Green Ingersoll

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits. — Todd Rundgren

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. — Mick Jagger

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman

Artists deserve to make a living — Larry Harvey

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy. — Ariel Pink

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue. — James De La Vega

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. — Laurie Anderson

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. — D.H. Lawrence

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist? — Catherine Hardwicke

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist. — Nile Rodgers

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being. — Janelle Monae

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus. — Jessie J.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. — Graham Greene

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist. — Lady Gaga

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. — Tatiana Maslany

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. — Laird Barron

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! — Charles M. Schulz

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel

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

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice. — Marina Abramovic

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This is a fact. If you don't make art people like, you will never earn a living as an artist. — Jack White

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists. — Mark Mothersbaugh

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

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it. — Mencius

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in. — Sydney Banks

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me. — Angel Haze

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

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. — D.H. Lawrence

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. — Bryan White

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving
as it has imaginative artists. — L. Ron Hubbard

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. — Curtis Jackson

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. — Hokusai

Death is a unique opponent, in that death always wins......There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting. --- Kal (the tattoo artist) — Steven Rowley

Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas. — Albert Camus

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist. — Dwight Yoakam

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd. — Joe Jonas

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

Being an artist is a job for life. — Brian Eno

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. — Gustave Flaubert

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out. — Ken Baumann

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. — Merry Clayton

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. — Thane Rosenbaum

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place. — Gloria Estefan

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. — Olivia D'Abo

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time. — Jan Brett

Don't live like a CEO when you're still a sandwich artist. — Sophia Amoruso

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, — Brian K. Vaughan

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway. — Sophia Amoruso

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen. — Paul McCartney

Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site. — Wolf Kahn

I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself. — Drake

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it. — Mary Robinette Kowal

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. — Chaim Potok

I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist. — Meghan Trainor

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career. — Sarah Gadon

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future. — Roy DeCarava

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. — Josh Groban

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do. — Charlotte Eriksson

Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill. — Luca Caioli

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. — Shawn Lukas

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline. — Jessica White