Best ego & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”

People Bigs Artist Differences Cases Ego Ordinary Ordinary People Big Ego

Author:Charles Atlas

“I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.”

Humans Artist Human Beings Ego

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.”

Self Artist Ego Faults Cruelty Self Centered Exhibits Liable Carelessness Callousness

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?”

World Artist Force Voice Modern Protect Ego Unique Rivers Competition Individuality Artistic Productive Solo Rivalry Modern Times Paddling

Author:Sara Genn

“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.”

People Artist Song Ego Singing Opposites Judgement

Author:Romare Bearden

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.”

Ifs Way Mind Different Stories Artist Ego Sake Tricks Different Ways Illustration Illustrators

Author:Maurice Sendak

“My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."”

Artist Speak Personality Ego Yeah Very Good Nurturing Empathetic

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.”

“It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.”

Way Eye Jobs Artist Interesting Levels Ego Expectations Pressure Aim Get Up Comedian Reaching Very Interesting Being An Artist Precipice

Author:Chris Gethard

“Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.”

People Giving Artist Difficult Quiet Ego

Author:Flying Lotus

“I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.”

Thinking Art Artist Ego Sake Pretentious

Author:Lou Reed

“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”

“We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"”

World Should Artist Asks Vision Ego Bigger Dance Dancer

Author:Bill T. Jones

“I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.”

People Reality Artist Actors Dying Ego Sensitive Compliment Hug

Author:Josh Brolin

“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.”

Artist Food Ego Great Art Animated Great Artist Pixar Animated Movies Toy Story 3

Author:Peter O'Toole

“The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture”

Men Kind Art Seems Artist Creative Ego Creative Art Creative Artists Foreground

Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.”

May Mean Has Beens Artist Fall Careers Minutes Television Higher Fame Ego Harder Lifetime Newspapers Magazines Interviews Climbs Print Articles Ads Crash Multiple Fifteen Venture Strokes

Author:Jack White

“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator”

Mind Artist Greater Ego Creator Transcending Relinquishing Relinquishing Control

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.”

Artist Ego Ambition Accounts Presses Consumers

Author:Giorgio Armani

“In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."”

Art Self Philosophy Artist Enjoy Effects Ego Medicine Patient Intoxication Exhilaration Potency Placebo Placebo Effect

Author:Kenny Smith

“The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.”

Humans Artist Responsibility Ego

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

Ego Quotes

Related topics

Ego Quotes