Artist Quotes - Page 133

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Artist awake or be forever fallen.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

We're not cameras, we're artists.

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.