Artist Quotes

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.