Artist Quotes

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

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

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

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

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

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.

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

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

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

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

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

Great artists suffer for the people.

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

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Create, artist, do not talk.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.