Artist Quotes

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

The art of art... is simplicity.

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

Everything an artist spits is art.

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.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

Great artists suffer for the people.

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

It is either easy or impossible.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.