Artist Quotes

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures