Artist Quotes

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict