Artist Quotes - Page 245

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had this affinity for folk music, and music in general, for as long as I can remember. So as soon as I could start playing shows, I did. And my parents were really supportive of me the entire time.

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.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators.

Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should want or that books and movies and TV had put across. What I really wanted was to be a working artist, which I am.

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana. But later, maybe a year and a half ago, they named it one of the 50 greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic.