Artist Quotes
The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.
Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...
In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?
ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...
When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?
The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface
The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling
You always have my attention. When you're in the room, you're my sun.
If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.
Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.
Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.