Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Thomas Wolfe

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Auguste Rodin

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Waylon Jennings

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Gloria Swanson

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
Jane Rule

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Emile Zola

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
David Bowie

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Susan Sontag

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.
Stephanie Mills