Artist Quotes
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.
The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it”
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts.
I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"