Artist Quotes

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.