Artist Quotes - Page 121

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

It is true that every artist has his own religion.

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and makes them, slowly, famous.... without them wishing to become celebrated.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of course, then much later, Marina Abramović and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about Méret's Oppenheim piece.