Artists Quotes
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or
What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology
We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.
Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation, " said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
The sound a box of Lego makes is the noise of a child's mind working, looking for the right piece. Shake it, and it's almost creativity in aural form.
We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us
The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.
Art doesn’t bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists.
Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.
Words do not always need a destination.We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.Running around headless in the vague zone.And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.
Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!
The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.
An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!
In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.
If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.
