Definition Of An Artist Quotes

#1. I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.

Matthew Brannon

#2. I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Richard Price

#3. My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Kinky Friedman

#4. My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Albert Brooks

#5. You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

Neige

#6. Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Alexander Kluge

#7. Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

George Edward Woodberry

#8. If a writer, despite his natural gifts, gives up writing because no one will publish him, then he is no writer. The artist is distinguished by his urge to create, which by very definition is a concomitant of talent.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#9. Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

Bob Harper

#10. I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

Chinua Achebe

#11. The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Allan Bloom

#12. The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago ...

Thomas Hoving

#13. Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

Claire Messud

#14. I wouldn't want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there's a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you're an artist and you're a feminist.

Carolee Schneemann

#15. While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Paola Antonelli

#16. Because she was stuck in a cabin with a murdering madman who thought she was his queen and intended to bind her to him until she died

Kristen Ashley

#17. In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds.

Elif Shafak

#18. My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.

Matthew Brannon

#19. The fire between us sparked so brightly because we both knew how it was without the other. We knew exactly how much we both had to lose.

Brighton Walsh

#20. Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

John Goodman

#21. Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Ned Rorem