Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I’d be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist. – Graeme Base
As an artist, you’re pretty sheltered backstage. You often don’t know what’s going on out there. – Gavin Rossdale
I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don’t really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes. – Derek Cianfrance
I don’t want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don’t already agree with him. – Mohsin Hamid
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. – David Mamet
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that’s what I wanted to do. – Frank Frazetta
I have to live authentically at all times. And that’s part of what makes me an artist. I’m not scared to do that. – Estelle
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn’t make me happy. That’s why I’m working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ. – David Guetta
I’m probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become ‘pure.’ I don’t think that’s going to happen to me, because I don’t really see that as something I want to explore. – Gary Hume
I wouldn’t know any other way to live except to be an artist. I’m not very good at anything else. – Fred Tomaselli
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. – Pablo Picasso
With comics, there’s no budget. There’s a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do. – Marc Guggenheim
I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable – me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, ‘Oh finally, I’m proud of you!’ – David Guetta
When I came out, I said, ‘I’m going to be a proud gay artist.’ I’m not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she’s a goddess! – Mary Lambert
Maybe ‘Doonby’ will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, ‘What was that really about?’ And that excites me as an artist. – Erin Way
In America there’s no rights for the artist, so whatever films I’ve made kind of belong to the studio. – Norman Jewison
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. – Ezra Koenig
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It’s to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That’s how I enjoyed fame in ’74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. – Philippe Petit
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental. – Cynthia Weil
That’s part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you’re trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life. – Francis Ford Coppola
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed. – Paul Rand
