Artist Quotes - Page 207

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing.

Be the artist you were born to be.

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to do: to play dress-up, and create outfits and looks that aren't typical. I am an artist, so I like creating things.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or Elton John would be a dream for me as I have a lot of admiration for their voice, their talent and their charisma.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.

Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women's liberation. Things weren't so easy then. Méret Oppenheim wasn't so directly involved in this - she was in her 60s at that point. She found her strength through competing with the great male artists of her time; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.