Quotes about artist
artist alive irony
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony. Vincent Van Gogh
artistic-life homesick longing
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.
artist men compass
Conscience is a man's compass.
artist suffering atheism
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
artist bread murphy
Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
artist giving quality
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
artist solitary
The artist after all is a solitary being. Virginia Woolf
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
artist rooms needs
All artists need a room of their own
artist order effort
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
artist sun eternity
Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake
artist innocence harlots
Every harlot was a virgin once.
artist differences thought-provoking
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
artist echoes soul
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia. Werner Herzog
artist feelings craftsman
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
artist people profound
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics. Wayne Swan
artist order criticism
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. Wayne Thiebaud
artist giving commit
When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you. Wayne White
artist communicate
I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
artist people bottom
Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
artist careers lucky
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
artist lifestyle being-an-artist
Being an artist is a lifestyle.
artist want
You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make. Wale
artist records want
Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.
artist air tests
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. Walker Percy
artist dinner awful
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society, Samuel Barber
artist form figures
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
artist too-much sensitive
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist. Samuel L. Jackson
artist tasks chaos
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett
artist like-me
God is just another artist, like me. Salvador Dali
artist helping modern
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
artist drug hallucinogens
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
artist world scandal
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.