Artist Quotes - Page 134

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.