Artist Quotes
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.
Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.
We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’ ‘And I said, ‘She is? Oh my God!’
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.