Be An Artist Quotes

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.

An artist must be a reactionary

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

The artist is always beginning.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.