I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
Janis Joplin

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.
Raymond Chandler

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
Norman Jewison

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Henri Matisse

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
Jet Li

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Josef Albers

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham

A good artist has less time than ideas.
Martin Kippenberger

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Franz Liszt

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.
Chris Brown

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
Chris Brown

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
David Herbert Lawrence

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
David Herbert Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence