Quotes about artist
artist surroundings
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Lucian Freud
artist play risk
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't. M. Night Shyamalan
artist musician poet
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. Loren Eiseley
artist want able
I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell. Malcolm D. Lee
artistic-ability black video
You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that? Gavin Hood
artist car drug
Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or anything close to it, and I don't have shootouts or explosions or car chases ... There aren't a bunch of drugs in the videos and I am not wearing hot pants, and I don't dance. So, as far as videos or anything visually is concerned, I'm not a very visually stimulating artist. Gavin DeGraw
artist you-re-pretty knows
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there. Gavin Rossdale
artist feminist-art needs
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. Frida Kahlo
artist expression painting
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
artist focus sticks
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too. Fred Wilson
artist yield spirit
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. Odilon Redon
artist ideas perfection
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
artist expression order
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him. Norman Rockwell
artist president painting
It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
artist actors mouths
Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
artist visionaries remembered
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
artist saws capture
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
artist style actors
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style. Norman Mailer
artist talent fats
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. Norman Reilly Raine
artist creative restless
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. Oscar de la Renta
artist color light
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
artist way very-true
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan. Orson Welles
artist years world
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
artist firsts essentials
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
artist should isolated
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
artist craftsman
I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist. Orhan Pamuk
artist black detroit
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit. Obie Trice
artist soul mind
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
artist pedestal doe
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. Novalis
artist doe conclusion
The conclusion does not belong to the artist. Emile Zola
artist spiders merit
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. Emily Dickinson
artist empathy kind
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. Emil Nolde
artist needs breathe
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.