Artist Quotes - Page 129

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

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.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"?

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.