Quotes about artist
artist perception mystery
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too. Anthony Davis
artist two desire
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. Anna Katharine Green
artist self issues
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other. Anne Roiphe
artist busy wonder
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it. Anne Sexton
artist hats responsible
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power. Anna Deavere Smith
artist looks attention
Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
artist schedules world
Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there. Andrea Anders
artist qualms-about confusion
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal. Andre Malraux
artist rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
artist world looks
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
artist feelings thrill
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
artist discovery order
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
artist building-up doe
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
artist
I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties. Anthony Kiedis
artist media color
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
artist political best-work
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political. Alicia Keys
artist people may
You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well. Alice Walker
artist roles tools
The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack. Ali Partovi
artist order essence
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
artist office type
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type. Ana Castillo
artist government people
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. Afrika Bambaataa
artist grotesque
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. Alexander McQueen
artist ego mind
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator Alex Grey
artist creative criticism
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. E. M. Forster
artist hours-in-the-day ideas
I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who would like to express myself in many different ways. But then at the same time I know I have limited hours in the day, and I can only do so much successfully. Donna Karan
artist color black
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer. Donald Byrd
artist doe failing
Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. Donald Barthelme
artist law dumb
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. Duff Goldman
artist
The artist must say it without saying it. Duke Ellington
artist way should
Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do. Dr. Dre
artist creative way
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. Dorothy L. Sayers
artistic found theological
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
artist recognition moments
The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.