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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
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
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
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
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
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
— Graham Greene
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
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
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
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
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
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
— Dwight Yoakam
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
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
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
Don't live like a CEO when you're still a sandwich artist.
— Sophia Amoruso
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
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
— Paul McCartney
I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
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
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.
— Roy DeCarava
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 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
