Artist Quotes
Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.
Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.
Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.
There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.
I should ask if it was good for you, " Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.
How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.
Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.
A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.
Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.
Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.
The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.