Artist Quotes

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

Art is man's nature nature is God's art.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Art upsets science reassures.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.