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As artists we are manifesting thought into reality every time we create. (Cristina Acosta)
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. (Henry Brooks Adams)
The artist that paints every tiny little detail is an artist with nothing better to do. (Sam Adoquei)
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. (Richard Aldington)
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. (Brian Aldiss)
Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage – these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. Without them, laboring humanity would perish. (James Allen)
For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation... and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap. (Joseph W. Alsop, Jr.)
Creative artists are mankind's awakeners: through the language of metaphor we are the summoners of the outward mind to conscious contact with our inner selves as spirit. (Ran Andrews)
An artist is not one who has solved life's problems. He is one who accepts life's problems. (Anonymous)
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
As artists we are educators and communicators. We need to keep our finger on the pulse of society. (Elizabeth Azzolina)
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes. (Igor Babailov)
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters, triumphs, challenges, impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again,
learning love and love and LOVE! (Richard Bach)
The artist should open the eyes of the viewer to overlooked beauty that is sometimes right in front of us. (Kenn Backhaus)
I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Everyone needs an identity of their own, not in relation to someone else... someone's daughter, sister, wife, mother. "Artist" is mine alone. (Janet Best Badger)
Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again. (Hermann Bahr)
Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time. (John Baldessari)
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. (Darby Bannard)
I am not a black artist, I am an artist. (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
I am an artist who, for forty years / Has stood at the lake edge / Throwing stones in the lake, / Sometimes, very faintly, / I hear a splash. (Maxwell Bates)
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time. (Charles Baudelaire)
Being an artist is like being an Olympic athlete: years of sweat and dedication to build up skills, lots of sacrifice along the way, lots of obstacles to overcome. All that, and no gold, silver, or bronze medals. (Theresa Bayer)
We are painters first, artists always, and as such not bound by anything but our innate desire to create. (Mary Todd Beam)
Artists are fiery, they do not weep! (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. (Leland Bell)
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... (George Bellows)
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. (George Bellows)
There are certain aspects of being an artist which I won't accept, such as the insistence on the 'cult of personality'; I like to remain anonymous and just get on with it. I don't want my life to be the first you think about when you look at the pictures. (Zoe Benbow)
At moments we are all artists. (Arnold Bennett)
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. (John Berryman)
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. (Pierre Berton)
Every man is an artist. (Joseph Beuys)
A special moment in time excites the artist, drives her to risk even failure, if she but takes the chance to capture only a fraction of what she sees, of what she feels, from this wonderful thing we call Life! (Betty Jean Billups)
We artists are the first to see the light at the end of the chaotic tunnels we all live in, and we dare to move toward it. (Eleanor Blair)
Artists feel the need to be in control of their own lives. It's not just about money, but also a need for independence. (Linda Blondheim)
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an
artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him. (Pierre Bonnard)
No one really knows why we paint; it's just what we do. (Sandra Bos)
Every nation which has made a lasting contribution to mankind has been aware of its artists. (Harry J. Boyle)
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer. (Robert Brault)
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gipsies. (Gerald Brenan)
Art and I have an agreement... I won't ask where we are going and art won't ask, "Why me?" (Bob Brendle)
Artists are just people. (Peter William Brown)
Art is just something that human beings need to do. Some get to make art every day. Most just make their art when they get the chance. History does not care. History gets the work. (Peter William Brown)
The artist has one function – to affirm and glorify life. (W. Edward Brown)
An artist feels things largely. (John Burk)
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. (William S. Burroughs)
Artists provide a necessary function, which is to remind people that they have the creative potential in themselves and, by extension, the gumption not to depend on others to provide it for them. (Brett Busang)
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (Samuel Butler)
An artist is like a prophet. He must lead people and help them get acquainted with what he sees. (George Buytendorp)
What an artist the world is losing in me! (Nero Claudius Caesar)
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. (Julia Cameron)
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. (Julia Cameron)
Artists paint virtual doorways. Viewers stand in front and choose whether to enter the visual narrative... (Ken Campbell)
All artists are two-headed calves. (Truman Capote)
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding. (John F. Carlson)
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress. (Joyce Cary)
An artist in Canada can teach, starve, or go commercial. (A. J. Casson)
As artists we all envisage new frontiers and challenges within our individual capabilities, as well as new visions as we travel through life. (John Cerlienco)
If we artists didn't have a "screw loose" we wouldn't be artists! (Jane Champagne)
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. (Raymond Chandler)
Don't expect honesty from artists at any time. Massive delicate egos and a myopic view of reality don't make for any kind of study. Artists aren't that special. (Dinos Chapman)
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. (Anton Chekhov)
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. (Anton Chekhov)
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw. (Billy Childish)
Our art is meant to be given away, stolen, borrowed, begged and paid for... like our heart. (Toni Ciserella)
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. (Jean Cocteau)
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. (R. G. Collingwood)
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition – and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain. (Joseph Conrad)
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. (Ananda Coomaraswamy)
It is the consistent act of painting or drawing that creates an artist - the painting is only the bi-product. (Carol Cottone-Kolthoff)
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. (Edward G. Craig)
Artists must know what they are doing and how they are going to do it, while allowing room for spirit and intuition to influence the creative experience. (Donald Demers)
As artists, we are privileged to fall in love over and over again. Each new piece bears the potential for that glorious intoxication – and for the paralysis of its glittering expectation. (Kim Denise)
Artists express their own soul through their paintings. It is, perhaps, an affirmation of who we really are--as art rarely lies. (Jack Dickerson)
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business. (Richard Diebenkorn)
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost. (Isak Dinesen)
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. (E. L. Doctorow)
An Artist is more than the person who puts brush to canvas, notes to page, clay to form, etc. An Artist is an actual State of Being, one that moves both inside and outside the realms of a studio or creative work. It is a way of living, of perceiving, and most of all, of sharing. (Patrice Donnelly)
We can only be what we are! (David Dory)
Artists are similar to politicians in real life, but rather than giving promises they offer insight. (David Dory)
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society. (Marcel Duchamp)
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art, with all that has wounded or defeated us in daily life... not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. (Lawrence Durrell)
We artists are the true makers of reality, for it is we who are at the nexus of any expression of newness. For everything you see that is man-made has an artist at its beginnings. (Nic East)
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. (Albert Einstein)
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. (Albert Einstein)
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of "pushing paint," breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing. (James Elkins)
The artist must say it without saying it. (Duke Ellington)
Every artist writes his own autobiography. (Havelock Ellis)
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The artist is the world's scapegoat. (Jacob Epstein)
As artists we must look at the outside world with foreign eyes. (Chantell Van Erbe)
Not only can we create art, art creates us. (Maria Eskenasy)
Each artist is simply the last in a long tradition combining the conventional and the avant-garde, the classical and the romantic, the blending of style according to that one very particular individual - the artist himself. (Chris Everest)
The wonder is that artists can stimulate other artists. (Nick Farbacher)
An artist is a creature driven by demons – he usually doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. (William Faulkner)
What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was. (Mitchell Feigenbaum)
I hear artists say that they only do it for themselves; they're not concerned with what people think. To me, they're either lying or idiots. (Max Ferguson)
Becoming an artist is about developing a dialogue between what you are communicating and what you're absorbing from your surroundings. (John Ferrie)
The ups and downs make you who you are. There's no end game here; there's no pot of gold waiting. It's really just knowing that I lived my life as an artist and that I did it on my own terms. And I get to keep the lights on for another day. (Peter Fiore)
Beware of the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality. We know that Velazquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art. (Lucian Freud)
The best thing about being an artist is that it is not just the work but a state of being... viewing the world in terms of visual dynamics. (Karen Frey)
Artists are, by nature and necessity, solitary souls. (Ann Richmond Garlough)
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. (Paul Gauguin)
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. (Robert Genn)
Artists don't retire – they can't – otherwise they're not artists. (Don Getz)
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. (Kahlil Gibran)
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. (Eric Gill)
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. (Nikki Giovanni)
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. (Vincent van Gogh)
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists. (Ernst Gombrich)
All men are creative but few are artists. (Paul Goodman)
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it. (Morris Graves)
We artists need to be eagles and not sparrows. It is the eagle that soars high above and alone... (Brad Greek)
Don't call yourself an artist. Let others name you that. "Artist" is a title of great weight. (Irwin Greenberg)
Every true artist reaches into his soul and creates something that is very much a part of himself. (Hap Hagood)
An artist's job is to show people what was always there but they never noticed. (Andrew Hamilton)
I would have been an artist even if I'd been something else; I just couldn't stop doing that. Young artists get caught up in the idea that you can only paint when you're 'inspired.' (Steve Hanks)
We are ultimately defined and designed by the artist from within and without. (Charly Hansen)
When the artist is alive in any person... he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding. (Robert Henri)
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible. (Robert Henri)
The real artist's work is a surprise to himself. (Robert Henri)
Most of the people involved in any art secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good – or because they're lucky. (Katharine Hepburn)
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride... (Beatrice Hinkle)
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision. (John Hirsch)
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. (Al Hirschfeld)
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. (Damien Hirst)
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 if you didn't want to share an experience, a thought. (David Hockney)
There are four artists: There is the artist you think you are, the artist you wish you were, the artist you want others to think you are, and the artist that you are. If you spend too much time thinking about all this, you may never find out who the last one is! (Susan Holland)
Artists should not try to be pure. They should get their hands and their souls a little dirty by plunging into the world full force. (Steve Hovland)
Scratch an artist and you will surprise a child. (James G. Huneker)
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. (Aldous Huxley)
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. (Aldous Huxley)
-on Ala Bashir, Iraqi artist and physician...
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be. (Jabra Ibrahim Jabra)
Real artists ship. (Steve Jobs)
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. (James Joyce)
As a human being the artist may have many moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense – he is 'collective man' – one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind. (Carl Jung)
We need that metaphysical wizard, the Artist, in society to transmute what is commonplace and ordinary into a more meaningful and heightened human experience. (Alar Jurma)
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. (Allan Kaprow)
There are very few artists who can afford to be true to themselves. (Judy Kardosh)
In a free society art is not a weapon... Artists are not engineers of the soul. (John F. Kennedy)
Modesty, among artists, is almost always a liability. (Philip Kennicott)
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. (Corita Kent)
A Good artist has less time than ideas. (Martin Kippenberger)
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it... (Willem de Kooning)
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. (Diana Krall)
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes. (Lee Krasner)
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. (Barbara Kruger)
We have to forget the black side of life. If our art is black, that means we are stopped. We are not doing our job as artists. (Reem Kubaa)
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. (Akira Kurosawa)
Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others. (John Kurtz)
The real gift that artists are given is not the technical skills that are learned and honed, but those moments of clarity when we connect with something only we are allowed to see. (Mary Lapos)
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. (D. H. Lawrence)
My job is to "see" the landscape for others – to absorb the spirit of the land – and then to communicate it to them. When the viewer feels something in response, I know I have succeeded. (Brent R. Laycock)
If we artists are to survive this period at all – we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers. (Rico Lebrun)
Artists are crystals, most often refusing to be defined by mainstream society. Crystals tend to be vibrant, dynamic, awake and not lost in the 'waking sleep' stupor that seems to be overtaking our world at an alarming rate. (Lyn Lecuyer)
The true artist paints for himself. (A. C. Leighton)
The artist must / create himself or be born again. (Denise Levertov)
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling... (C. S. Lewis)
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man. (Sinclair Lewis)
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make things. (Maya Lin)
Our job as artists is to see through our imaginary identities, which cause ourselves and others so much pain, release them through that seeing, and become one with the All. In that oneness, through that oneness, a wholeness speaks through our hands and voices. (Jeanne Long)
Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Exercising the social contract between the citizen and state, the artist works as citizen within the intimate spaces of community life. (Yolanda Lopez)
Take what is in your mind. Process it through your heart. It comes out through your hands - Art. (Lena Lucas)
Like books, artists have their fates. (Norbert Lynton)
Artists are those who have instinctively known the concept of Plato's shadow on the cave wall, and they're trying to look past the shadows to find the object standing between it and the light. (Cyd Madsen)
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. (Norman Mailer)
Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. (Eric Maisel)
We can categorically state that the primary funder of artistic practices in Canada is the artists themselves. (Michael Maranda)
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run downhill. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Being an artist is like wearing cruel shoes and loving it. (Cyn McCurry)
One is an artist not simply because one paints, but because one sees artistically, thinks artistically, and actually experiences life artistically. (Ronald Joyce McDowell)
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. (William McElcheran)
To be an artist is to recognize the possibilities found in everyday sights and scenes. (Susan Morris McGee)
Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes. (Mary Beth McKenzie)
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception. (Marshall McLuhan)
The world needs artists. We live in troubling times. Uplifting artwork puts people's attention on positive things and makes them feel good about being alive. (Scott Menaul)
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be. (H. L. Mencken)
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. (Michelangelo)
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. (Henry Miller)
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. (Henry Miller)
As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood. (Paul Monette)
Artists cannot always be visual advocates upon their own canvas. Sometimes, we respond by actions outside of art - to meet the same ends. (Brad Michael Moore)
To be an artist is to believe in life. (Henry Moore)
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person. (Ann Mortifee)
Every artist is an unhappy lover. (Iris Murdoch)
Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds. (Barnett Newman)
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. (Wes Nisker)
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities? (Dorothy Norman)
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. (Novalis)
An artist is his own fault. (John O'Hara)
Artists who dare to remain are at the helm of their own vessel, both steering and standing at the very bow where calm waters are broken and clarity is at its most pristine. We are the wake-makers. While we're making waves, they're surfing our chop. (Kevin Obregon)
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. (Ben Okri)
Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly. (oliver)
The artist must not love his own work too long. It isn't reasonable. He grows up every time. (Serguei Ouissik)
The title 'artist' can be an itchy one to wear, an ill-fitting hand-me-down title that seems as if it must have been made for someone else. (Judith Palmer)
Artists, like Olympic sprinters, are allowed only so many false starts before they're asked to leave the field. (Judith Palmer)
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Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. (Jon Pareles)
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life. (Martin Parr)
What we must do as artists is demonstrate the shared wholeness of the human condition to our audiences. (Nicholas Pennell)
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability. (Walter J. Phillips)
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age. (Pablo Picasso)
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? ...On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness. (Pablo Picasso)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
All things considered, there is only Matisse. (Pablo Picasso)
A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. (Eric Pio)
If you think you are an artist you must be a fighter. Fight to shine and illuminate the world. (Todd Plough)
Visual art is a way of seeing and expressing that thing seen in a manner not given to everyone. That statement could be misconstrued as prideful, but anyone engaged in painting as a profession knows that isn't true. (Ed Pointer)
Every good artist paints what he is. (Jackson Pollock)
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. (Steven Pressfield)
More and more people are becoming artists. There is a need to make your voice heard in this age where we are becoming less and less empowered. (Henryk Ptasiewicz)
Artists who speak negatively about commercial success never had any. (Bob Ragland)
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. (Craig Raine)
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. (Robert Rauschenberg)
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. (Odilon Redon)
For those fortunate enough to be able to make a living in the arts, sometimes we need take a step back and realize how blessed we are. (William F. Reese)
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. (Ad Reinhardt)
God, the king of artists, was clumsy. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Artists occupy a position of fascination for the rest of the world. (Alice Rich)
Artists want encouragement, recognition, respect and confidence. (Alice Rich)
The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society is to call the old magic back to life. (Tom Robbins)
The artist is the confidant of nature; flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs toward him. (Auguste Rodin)
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Artists - by definition innocent - don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back. (Ned Rorem)
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. (Harold Rosenberg)
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius. (Harold Rosenberg)
We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch. (Bob Ross)
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. (Georges Rouault)
It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm. (Jim Rowe)
All people the relatives. But, the largest relatives in the mankind are the artists – they, in addition, are spiritual relatives and speaking on same language of fine art. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak)
When we see ourselves as artists, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. We know that all artists have the right to create their own art. (Don Miguel Ruiz)
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about... (Rumi)
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe. (John Ruskin)
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth. (Vita Sackville-West)
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. (Carl Sagan)
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. (J. D. Salinger)
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. (George Santayana)
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life. (Egon Schiele)
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. (Robert Schumann)
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. (Martin Scorsese)
We bring vast imagination and fantasy to people, a reminder to keep going, even when people say we live in another world and our feet are not on the ground. A good response is, "Well, my world is rather nice--why don't you visit it sometime?" (Corrie Scott)
An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind. (Jack Shadbolt)
I have come to see that an artist is not given a form – a style – but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life. (Jack Shadbolt)
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. (Ben Shahn)
All Artists are Anarchists. (George Bernard Shaw)
The artist must be ecstatic about something. (Ted Shawn)
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The true artist is not interested in having a nice life, being comfy or fitting in, but rather sees himself as a benefactor. His goal is to make a contribution to life, and to this end there are no barriers, doors or blocks, but only wide open spaces. (Brian Simons)
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life. (Lister Sinclair)
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. (Edith Sitwell)
The artist has been the element of nature, and the arbiter of nature; he who has sat on a cloud and viewed it from afar, but at the same time has identified himself as one of nature's parts. (David Smith)
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. (Jacob Getlar Smith)
Artists need to liberate themselves to dig deeper for a more meaningful art. We are the voice for the unspoken. (Libbie Soffer)
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. (Susan Sontag)
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. (Bruce Springsteen)
The artist is an educator of artists of the future... (Saul Steinberg)
What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist. (Tom Stoppard)
My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. (Tom Stoppard)
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic. (Anthony Storr)
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself. (Igor Stravinsky)
All artists are illusionists of one kind or another. (Mike Svob)
All my Artworks are the masterpiece of my immaterial mind. (Massimo Taccon)
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. (Wayne Thiebaud)
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever stand when the fire is going. (Caitlin Thomas)
Even if you are not an artist nor ever expect to become an artist, if you can learn to see like an artist, your life will forever change. (Tommy Thompson)
When somebody produces something which is deemed art, they are denoted an artist. Some poor souls subsequently suffer from the delusion that anything and everything they then do is also worth to be called art. (Billy Childish and Charles Thomson)
We have all just begun to scratch the surface of what it means to be an artist. (Aleksander Titovets)
It takes an artist to show us the beauty that is always there. (Julie Trail)
The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist. (Armand Trousseau)
Artists make a living exchanging something that has no value for something that might. (Stewart Turcotte)
Artists are the froth on the waves of civilization. (unknown)
Since the earliest times – from the cave artists to the modern painters – artists have enriched the plastic vocabulary and each generation of man has seen through the eyes of the artists of the preceding generation. (unknown)
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (John Updike)
Artists buy their fruits and vegetables in the Still Life section at the market. (Stella Violano)
Artists are like lit candles; some burn out fast, some are put out promptly, and the rest smolder. (Milos Vujasinovic)
Do not call yourself an artist until your peers tell you that you are! (Robert Wade)
Ya wanna be an artist? Make art! (Kay WalkingStick)
Artists are blessed when they have a clear line of communication with their inner creative intelligence, the inner eye or voice which silently moves the brush in accordance with an unspoken and never fully comprehended vision. (Marney Ward)
All the arts enrich us and each art form we embrace helps to make us whole. (Marney Ward)
Artists are more able than most to perceive the world in all its wonder and glory, and more willing than most to give themselves over to the experience. (Marney Ward)
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them. (Andy Warhol)
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. (Andy Warhol)
Being an artist is about being at the right place at the right time and having the visual creativity to know so - to notice what other people overlook. (Ben Watson III)
If an artist is someone that samples media, such as paint, to create structurally complete and emotionally expressive compositions, then a DJ, who samples sounds and other media to create structurally complete and emotionally expressive compositions, is an artist. (Rob Wegner)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. (H. G. Wells)
The artist should never try to be popular. Rather the public should be more artistic. (Oscar Wilde)
Bad artists always admire each others work. (Oscar Wilde)
A group of artists is like a flock of shepherds. (Hollis Williford)
Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems. (Helen M. Winslow)
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. (Joel Peter Witkin)
Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature. (Leonard Wolf)
I didn't discover I was an artist until I was 17... It was very hard to be an artist and a child... it was like having sand up your butt when you go to the beach. (Alfre Woodard)
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent... there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed. (Virginia Woolf)
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen. (Andrew Wyeth)
We always get the shit end of the stick, so I figure, why not paint the shit end of the stick? (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)
-from Bordercrossings interview 2001...
I was probably one of the first artists to pry the anthropologists from my leg, where they were hanging like little puppies. (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)
Selfless action somehow connects the artist to a larger order. Making beauty is like practicing Zen. (Rob Zeer)
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. (Emile Zola)
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