Quotes about artist
artist should
I should like to be famous and unknown. Edgar Degas
artist two imagination
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
artist solitude wish
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
artist looks
We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
artist fifty twenties
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
artist waste wasting-time
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
artist vision want
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision. Ed Wood
artist way kind
I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting. Ed Sheeran
artist blood years
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing! Earl Monroe
artist play knowing
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse. Edmund Waller
artist hard
It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be. Bill Murray
artist england architecture
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Benjamin Haydon
artist joy spread
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. Bertrand Russell
artist cobain strange
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening. Chad Kroeger
artist would-be okay
It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that. Cassie Ventura
artistic reason
When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason. Cass McCombs
artist firsts used
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets. Carl Andre
artist over-you discovering-yourself
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
artist wonderful lost
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
artist trying environment
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
artist award best category pick piece winner
We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.
artist buying care inspire learn might start
When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.
artists good great happened john lennon moments nina song songs
When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself. Jose Gonzalez
artist next form
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows. Agnes de Mille
artist whole-life findings
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
artist decision coins
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
artist may artwork
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly Agnes Martin
artist feet mind
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
artist hands tools
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. Agnes Varda
artistic charles comics visionary
We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was. Robert Crumb
artist support details
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary. Charles de Lint
artist pigment best-artist
The best artists know what to leave out.
artist classic starving
I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. Cheryl Strayed