Artist Quotes - Page 115

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

The best artists know what to leave out.

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something." Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.