Artist Quotes
Artist Quote of the day
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
The Artist, " an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.
The artist is the closest man comes to being God.
I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
