Rene Angelil Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

At moments we are all artists.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our audience sees that and understands that - they're behind it.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

One thing I wanted to say in my Tony speech, which I didn't because I forgot what I was doing because I couldn't believe the view from where I was standing, was that I really, truly believe in an investment in young people in the arts. It is an investment in a more beautiful world.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.