Artistic Pride Quotes

The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

I've always believed that getting respect as an artiste is of utmost importance.

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked on.

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

I've always been an elite artist.

I think I have made just one picture that I really like.

I'm very proud of 'Backatown,' and usually I don't like to listen to my records.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

True fans will appreciate what I've done and the legacy I've left.

I would love to win an Oscar one day. That would be a very wonderful thing. But in the meantime, I really hope that I make films I'm proud of. A lot of people aren't going to like the movies I make, I'm sure. But as long as I'm proud of the movie and I'm not selling out, and I'm doing things that make me happy and make me grow as an actress, I'll be good.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.