Felonious Artist Quotes

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. ~ Henry James

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs. ~ Blake Shelton

Ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it. ~ Robert Barry

Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies ... these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it! ~ Leonard Read

I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give another artist one of my songs. At the end of the day, it still represents me. ~ Missy Elliot

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. ~ Tom Stoppard

In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become. ~ Porochista Khakpour

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist. ~ Rebecca Ferguson

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium. ~ Roger Scruton

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. ~ Paul Cezanne

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. ~ Maya Lin

All men are creative but few are artists. ~ Paul Goodman

Sacrifice of the self is the source of all humiliation, as also on the contrary is the foundation of all true exaltation. The first step will be an inward gaze - an isolating contemplation of ourselves. Whoever stops here has come only halfway. The second step must be an active outward gaze - autonomous, constant observation of the external world.
No one will ever achieve excellence as an artist who cannot depict anything other than his own experiences, his favorite objects, who cannot bring himself to study assiduously even a quite strange object, which does not interest him at all, and to depict it at leisure. An artist must be able and willing to depict everything. This is how a great artistic style is created, which rightly is so much admired in Goethe. ~ Novalis

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life. ~ Graham Collier

My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori. ~ Cliff Curtis

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back. ~ E. B. Lewis

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. ~ Luc Delahaye

Mediocrity is Death. ~ Suleman Abdullah

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself. ~ Alexandre Dumas

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. ~ John Leguizamo

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. ~ Martin Ritt

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality. ~ Junot Diaz

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same. ~ Clive Davis

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder. ~ Tom Peters

When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol." ~ Daryl Wein

My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great. ~ Bran Ferren

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. ~ Marcel Proust

Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing." ~ Paul Rodgers

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. ~ Lucian Freud

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. ~ Tyler Perry

Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word art ~ Bret Easton Ellis

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no. ~ Gore Vidal

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can't go any further. ~ Harry Callahan

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. ~ David Bowie

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ~ Prince

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it. ~ Julie Delpy

Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn by influence. And some people have a huge impact on you, and that's how you become the artist you are. ~ Greg Lake

Every artist lives in his or her work. If you want to understand an artist then look at his or her work! ~ Avijeet Das

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path. ~ Sam Taylor-Wood

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists. ~ Mary Pope Osborne

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist. ~ Antoine Fuqua

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear. ~ Oscar Wilde

A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator. ~ Harrison Gray Otis Dwight