Artist Quotes
I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.
Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.