Best artist & knows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Artist Touring You Like It

Author:Paul McDonald

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

Ifs Knows Years Doe Stills Helping Artist Stuff Levels Know How Records Fields Studios Software Microphones Laptops Playing Fields Years Of Experience

Author:Roger McGuinn

“In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.”

Knows Art Done Artist Honest Integrity

Author:Bruce Nauman

“Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.”

Knows Artist Struggle Hardest Vacation Hardest Thing Time Off

Author:Karen O

“As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.”

Knows Children Artist Fun Calling Expectations Destination

Author:Kiki Smith

“I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.”

Knows Giving Doe Shows Artist Steps Dad Presses My Dad Studios Artistic Toes Artistic Freedom

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.”

Knows Way Doe Artist Causes Seeing Hot Surprise Hip Hop Spots Hips Hops Here And There Leaks Clip Quentin Tarantino Hip Hop Artist

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.”

Knows World Problem Artist Asks Know How Duty Politician Solve

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”

Knows Humans Kind Artist Actors Creativity Know How Human Nature Directors Musician Tendencies Trends Predictions Great Art Chords Great Artist Prevailing Amenable

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.”

People Knows Years Bigs Wanted Lasts Moving Artist Order Next Sound Levels Mets Impact Who I Am California Rome Last Year Next Level Nicaragua Big Impact

Author:Kate Voegele

“I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Artist Singers

Author:Jessie Ware

“But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.”

Knows Should Important Artist Quality Building Instance Consistent Gothic Cathedrals

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.”

People Knows Able Artist

Author:Tony Yayo

“I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.”

Knows World Artist Consciousness Bob Timeless Dylan Marley

Author:Will Ferrell

“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.”

Knows Looks Kind Stills Artist Consciousness Conscious Boxes Legends History Of Music

Author:Will Ferrell

“I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.”

Knows Wanted Artist Know How

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

Knows Needs Long Artist Certain Games Company Long Time Management Managers Tactics

Author:Meek Mill

“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.”

Knows Needs Artist Process Understanding Views Vision Achieve Musician Capable Advantage Point Of View Tick

Author:Tommy Mottola

“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.”

Knows Way Children Doe Artist Literature Wonder Know How Alive Poet Blessed Sense Of Wonder

Author:Ella Maillart

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.”

Knows Artist Nothing New Acclaim

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.”

Knows Needs Art Matter Reality Artist Consciousness Maps Ironic Incomplete

Book:Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

Knows Mind Artist Creative Information Survival Machines Defense Stillness Gathering Analyzing True Artists

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

Knows Men Art Artist Strength Exercise Art Is Life Changing

Book:Aristophanes

Source: Aristophanes

“You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.”

Knows Artist Cry Goya

Author:Isaac Mizrahi

“I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Real Hands Artist Lost Records Inspired Hip Hop Hips Hops Just Being Great Art Great Artist

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.”

People Ifs Knows Want Wells May Able Artist Consciousness Vision Know How Risk Ten Finding Yourself Have Faith Translate Again And Again Not Alone Noticing

Author:Jean Giraud

“I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.”

Knows Giving Jobs Artist Song Grows Watches Fine Involved Give Me Excuse Credit Bitter Exposure

Author:Rico Love

“There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.”

People Knows Artist Ego Excuse Driven Bunch Upset

Author:Rico Love

“There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.”

People Knows Stories Kids School Artist Wonder Issues Female Asking Gender

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”

Thinking Knows Artist Actors Names Acting Pieces Stage Who You Are Theatre

Author:Clinton D. Powell

“What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”

Knows Giving Doe Reality Artist Hours Sacrifice Conversation Giving Up

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Play Form Artist Sound Knowing Taken Subjects Goes On Art Is Representation

Author:Plato

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”

Knows Age Today Artist Rich Havens Ancient Entertainers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.”

Ifs Knows Art Form Artist Mistake Doubt Strength No Doubt Recognizing Stimulus Accompany

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?”

Knows Men Whole Artist Certain Leaving Vanity Leisure Trifles Quietness

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.”

Knows Needs Artist Intention

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.”

Knows Art Artist Position Critics I've Learned Activist Dislike

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”

Knows Artist Greater Ought Thousand Painful Painful Death

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.”

Knows Years Moments Film Artist Saws Drama Dramatic Abstract

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.”

Ifs Knows Truth Lying Artist Reports

Book:Real People: A Novel

Source: Real People: A Novel

“All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.”

Knows Artist

Author:Jacob Lawrence

“What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.”

People Knows Needs Giving Artist Pieces Missing Painting Strategy Sculpture Business Strategy Best Business Catering

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.”

Knows Artist Modest Dictation

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.”

Thinking Knows Mean Art Artist Quality Greatness Painting Essentials Dimensions Works Of Art Motivated Great Work

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.”

Ifs Knows Desire Artist Universe Discovery Persist Restless Voyages Voyages Of Discovery

Book:To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society

Source: To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society

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