Quotes about artist
artist acting
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. Eddie Murphy
artist long performing
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.
artist people needs
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'. Dawn Powell
artist stuff should
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that. David Hockney
artist drawing needs
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
artist challenges want
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
artist people world
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
artist might hedonism
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
artist age way
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way
artist able paint
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
artist people saws
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
artist people needs
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist. David Duchovny
artist nervous moments
I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down. Benedict Cumberbatch
artist way world
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. Barnett Newman
artist bird ornithology
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
artist tickets doe
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices. Barry Diller
artist play giving
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage. August Wilson
artist june creative
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible. Audre Lorde
artist years democracy
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore. Athol Fugard
artist trying moral
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.
artist moments
At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett
artists example inspire intention local proposals sponsor submit visual
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artistic-life artistic process
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. Denise Levertov
artist trying levels
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste. Diego Rivera
artist soldier revolution
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
artist faithful vision
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
artist people generations
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer. Dick Clark
artist ideas people
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. Dick Bruna
artist generations want
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation. Dennis Hopper
artist roles labels
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
artist imagination firsts
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. Edgar Degas
artist rewards
The frame is the reward of the artist.
artist criminals spirit
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.