A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Henry Rollins

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

I didn't want to be an artist.
Carole King

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Muriel Rukeyser

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
Amy Tan

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.
Britney Spears

I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Maya Lin

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Courtney Love

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
Don Ellis

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad