Quotes about artist
artist magician
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist. Anais Nin
artist flow currents
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
artist men ivory-tower
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
artist choices elements
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
artist
I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. Anne Hathaway
artist years looks
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work. Andrew Wyeth
artist irritating finished
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
artist looks boring
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.
artist firsts photographer
I am an artist first and a photographer second. Andres Serrano
artist civilization triumph
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
artistic gender interpretation
I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation. Andrej Pejic
artist ideas people
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas. Andrei Tarkovsky
artist needs abstaining
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
artist blind born
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
artist pouring way
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.
artist skills feelings
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. Chuck Palahniuk
artist ideas effort
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.
artist shoes drawing
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’ Chuck Jones
artist criticism needs
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
artist drawing way
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
artist trying able
I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation. Chuck Klosterman
artist las-vegas idiot
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas. Chuck Close
artist ignorant definitions
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract. Chuck D.
artist revenue grows
I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
artist jam records
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
artist media marketing
A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.
artistic interest
I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic. Ansel Elgort
artist interesting
Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part. Anselm Kiefer
artist ties beginnings-and-ends
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
artist people lucky
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here. Angelina Jolie
artist scary done
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
artist appeals mass
I'm not a mass-appeal artist. Amos Lee
artist interesting trying
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things. Amy Adams