Quotes about artist
artist fit genre
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. Vikas Swarup
artist personality stories
First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain. Richard Sherman
artist giving canvas
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. Reed Hundt
artist musical
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical. Sammy Hagar
artist opposites solo
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist. Sammy Hagar
artist immature aliens
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. T. S. Eliot
artist careers creative
I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability. Sylvester Stallone
artist funky eclectic
Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist. Suzy Bogguss
artist needs intention
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. Susan Sontag
artist example despise
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness. Susan Sontag
artist hands eras
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. Susan Sontag
artist eclectic-style taste
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse. Taylor Dane
artist firsts sound
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. Taylor Dane
artist careers ideas
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business. Ray Stevens
artist people actors
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it. Stephen King
artist years reason
I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone. Stephanie Mills
artist talking television
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television. Stan Lee
artist america hands
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved. Stan Lee
artist ideas drawing
I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful. Stan Lee
artist darkness style
In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good. Stan Lee
artist childhood poetry
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Sophie Swetchine
artist want way
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. Sol Hurok
artist drawing people
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing. Sonakshi Sinha
artist use trigonometry
I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry. Taylor Momsen
artist miracle saint
I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles. Stanley Spencer
artist criminals peculiar
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. Stanley Kubrick
artist empty-life accountability
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. Stacie Orrico
artist retreat cases
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists. Soren Kierkegaard
artist enemy comfort
Comfort is the enemy of the artist. Stephen Tobolowsky
artist boards condescending
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. Stephen Bayley
artist america way
In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way. Stephen Colbert
artist talent notes
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. Willa Cather
artist secret artistry
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry. Willa Cather