"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

Artist,

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

Exlpore more Artist quotes

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Artist, Public

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

Artist, Artists, Devotion, Fact, Feeling

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Artist, Artists, Confusion, Intellectuals

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Confidence, Nothing, Talk

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Artist,

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian Celebrity

Artist, Chess, Language

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

Mike Wilson, American Journalist

Artist, Artists, Boys, Fact

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

Artist, Artists

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

Don Henley, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Eagles, Mind, Past

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

Mia Kirshner, Canadian Actress

Artist, Artists, Makeup

Explore more quotes by Lukas Foss

"Truth is a big concept."

Truth

"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."

Music

"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

Invention

"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."

Thought

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."

Art

"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."

Work

"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."

Music

"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."

Years

"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."

Artist

"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

May