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I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. — Bobby Sherman

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. — Morrissey

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. — Pete Hamill

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem De Kooning

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. — Thomas Huxley

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. — Georges Rouault

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions. — Marya Mannes

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

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. — Jock Sturges

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them. — Amit Kalantri

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions. — Brandon Boyd

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. — Walter Sickert

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes. — Francisco Costa

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw. — Billy Childish

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question. — Chinua Achebe

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

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

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that. — Jimmy Cliff

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting. — Ed Sheeran

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally. — Wendy Starland

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist. — Richelle Mead

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture. — L. Ron Hubbard

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within. — Kenny Werner

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

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist. — Zac Efron

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. — Edward J. Fraughton

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics. — Edi Rama

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. — Audre Lorde

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. — Julia Cameron

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down. — Ondi Timoner

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. — Ayn Rand

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. — Arshile Gorky

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. — Jeannette Walls

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. — Quincy Jones

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe. — Alan Bean

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that. — Kenny G

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. — Ira Sachs

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure. — Charlotte Bronte

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. — Rollo May

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. — James A. Michener

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. — Joe Bradley

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing. — Philip Pearlstein

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works. — Peter Doig

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not. — Arthur Koestler

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

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

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go. — Kim Wilde

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. — Marilyn Manson

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. — Jodie Foster

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

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration. — Kenneth G. Mills

I was poking fun at myself most of all. — Marcel Duchamp

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively. — Erin Willett

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does
distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73). — Susan Juby

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. — Romare Bearden

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them. — Jerry Uelsmann

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. — Amit Kalantri

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. — Edgard Varese

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations — Kurt Vonnegut

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point. — Rondal Partridge

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. — Marilyn Manson

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance. — Linda Ronstadt

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate. — Al Jourgensen

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out. — Bobbi Brown

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration. — Mervyn Levy

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

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

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments. — Matt Squire

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. — Robert Genn

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. — Steve Sabol

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

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

What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion? — Vladimir Nabokov

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored. — Juliana Hatfield

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist's general disposition to vibrate — Henry James

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz