Quotes about artist
artist nostalgia
The artist secretes nostalgia around life. Cyril Connolly
artist imagination today
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
artist class pay
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
artist numbers hip-hop
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde. Cornel West
artist names achievement
To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person. Common
artist positive-energy trying
I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world.
artist giving acting
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist. Dwight Yoakam
artist focus guessing
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
artist people inspire
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff. Courtney Barnett
artist artistic solo
I cannot exist as a solo artist. Courtney Love
artist competition bob
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
artist favorite-artist vans
I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! Colin Mochrie
artist self mad
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad. Angela Carter
artist people roles
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it. Amiri Baraka
artist needs serious
For the serious artist does not satisfy needs Anthony Burgess
artist wish stills
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. Andy Warhol
artist people sculpture
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
artist commercial-art america
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
artist commercial-art would-be
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
artist commercial-art mass
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
artist creating people
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. Andrew Schneider
artist people want
I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves. Andre Holland
artist acclaim nothing-new
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes. Andre Gide
artist want boxes
I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me. Angel Haze
artist expansion enough
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. Anais Nin
artist reality poverty
Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
artist magician
perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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.