Artistic Expectations Quotes

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.

I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.