Top Artist Quotes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
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I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
Rick James 
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
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They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
Rick Yune
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Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Helen Reddy
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
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