Be An Artist Quotes

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.

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.

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

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

I always wonder what drives us as Artists.

It is true that every artist has his own religion.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.