Quotes about artist
artist crowds members
Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Roger Ebert
artist essence space
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.
artist certain-death certain
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence. Robin Trower
artist political wells
I am an artist and a political being as well. Robin Morgan
artist world want
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. Robert Wyatt
artist suggestions looks
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions. Robert Townsend
artist fit categories
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Robert Smithson
artist long cameras
As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.
artist expanding contracting
For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.
artist national-parks nostalgia
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
artist facts prison
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control
artist parks facts
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
artist museums matter
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
artist growing expanding
I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over. Sarah Wayne Callies
artist needs
You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist. Sandra Bernhard
artist talent notes
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. Willa Cather
artist secret artistry
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
artist confusion raw-materials
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. William Ernest Henley
artist giving criticism
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
artist able may
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides. William Stafford
artist actors knows
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. William Hurt
artist actors want
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
artist style alchemist
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. William Butler Yeats
artistic abstinence interest
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. Wilhelm Reich
artist achievement answers
Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed? Walter Sickert
artist rose ordinary
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
artist class together
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius
artist needs habitat
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish. William Morris
artist looks language
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. Winslow Homer
artist museums light
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. William S. Burroughs
artist term ought
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. Witold Gombrowicz
artist wish different
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. Wole Soyinka
artist people sound
When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist. Wiz Khalifa