Quotes about artist
artist fabric littles
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation. William Faulkner
artist europe america
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
artist doe lasts
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does. Willem de Kooning
artist space ideas
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
artist free-will paint
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
artist feelings historical
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.
artist term ought
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. Witold Gombrowicz
artist wish different
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. Wole Soyinka
artist people sound
When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist. Wiz Khalifa
artist people want
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
artist berries wagons
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. Wilson Pickett
artist tools outsiders
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with. William Trevor
artist trying different
I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things. Wes Borland
artist play space
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening. Will Oldham
artist love-is
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes. Zachary Levi
artist musical training
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing. Zac Efron
artist paint draws
I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
artist painful fine
Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material. Zanele Muholi
artist accomplishment want
My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist. Ziggy Marley
artist jamaica different
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
artist perspective want
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
artist careers imagination
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination. Zac Posen
artist creative risk
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
artist creative serendipity
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting. Yves Klein
artist who-i-am people
Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be. Yolanda Adams
artist order kind
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. Wendell Berry
artist soul produce
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham
artist atheism limits
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
artist order creating
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world. Vladimir Nabokov
artist two realizing
Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.
artist people narcissist
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us? Yoko Ono
artist rough
My life was pretty rough.
artist fans lennon
Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.