Artist Quotes

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

My life was pretty rough.

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

Art is a delayed echo.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

A great artist is never poor.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work with. He's a dream.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.