Artist Quotes

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

I am no artist - please come and help me.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

His art is the health of the artist.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.