Quotes about artist
artist because-i-can wells
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly. Jerry Lawler
artist giving actors
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed. Jeff Bridges
artist color quality
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it. Jean-Paul Sartre
artist giving transition
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. George Saintsbury
artist fishing goal
... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all. George Sand
artist people way
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it. George Saunders
artist understanding
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.
artist admire australian
I do greatly admire Australian artists. Jeffrey Archer
artist suffering type
All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. Jim Harrison
artist would-be visionaries
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. Jerry Saltz
artist generations use
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
artist space ordinary
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
artist may
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
artist age tiny
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
artist perfect photographer
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
artist shock harder
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
artist house female
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
artist female matter
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
artist disease hips
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
artist space people
While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.
artist order careers
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
artist yelling balance
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.
artist creating knowing
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
artist years style
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.
artist trying levels
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. Jeff Koons
artist actors proud
Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it. Jim Beaver
artist maturity growing-as-a-person
When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist. Jennifer Lopez
artist literature film
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.
artist profound arrogance
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. James A. Michener
artist creative suffering
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process James A. Baldwin
artist
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
artist heaven assuming
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
artist gold cuffs
I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah. Jada Pinkett Smith