Quotes about artist
artist expression values
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. Wassily Kandinsky
artist hands keys
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
artist confusion raw-materials
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. William Ernest Henley
artist giving criticism
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
artist long assuming
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results. William Stafford
artist able may
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
artist actors knows
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. William Hurt
artist actors want
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
artist style alchemist
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. William Butler Yeats
artistic abstinence interest
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. Wilhelm Reich
artist achievement answers
Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed? Walter Sickert
artist rose ordinary
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
artist class together
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius
artist needs habitat
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish. William Morris
artist looks language
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. Winslow Homer
artist museums light
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. William S. Burroughs
artist glasses years
The two biggest myths about me are that I'm an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I'm an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years. Woody Allen
artist movement may
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality. William Saroyan
artist teens bursting
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness. William McFee
artist people occupation
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation. William Morris Hunt
artist people enough
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
artist determined excellent
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
artist dregs shambles
What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? William Gaddis
artist creating feelings
I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right. Will Ferrell
artist world bob
I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.
artist impact people
Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.
artist looks legends
Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
artist smell brilliant
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure. Sarah Silverman
artist acting actors
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons. Sarah Bernhardt
artist hands creative
Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow. Sara Zarr
artist apples people
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell. Sara Bareilles
artist hands doe
Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand. Samuel Pepys
artist done stealing
An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. William Faulkner