Quotes about artist
artist hatred soul
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so. Henri Matisse
artist creative effort
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
artist tree may
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
artist roles currents
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.
artist self discovery
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.
artistic should impress
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
artist originals
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
artist men imagination
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man...
artist done satisfaction
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...
artist explorers
An artist is an explorer.
artist light color
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
artist effort mastery
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
artist people broken
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. Henri Nouwen
artist air people
Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.
artist soul
The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.
artist males jackasses
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. Heinrich Boll
artist people what-if
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns. Heidi Julavits
artist giving interesting
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work. Helen Mirren
artistic tragic artistic-temperament
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. Heather O'Neill
artist choices faces
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Henry James
artist circles problem
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
artist ideas criticism
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
artist oil cameras
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. Henry Flynt
artist makeup sixteen
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. Helena Rubinstein
artist busy disappear
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace. Helen Vendler
artist artistic craftsman
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
artist audacity talent
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
artist may publicity
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.. but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
artist silence
Create, artist, do not talk.
artist suffering energy
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
artist skills doors
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while youre waiting to kick the door down.
artist ideas people
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool. Jimi Hendrix
artist
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist. Eric Fischl