Artist Quotes - Page 148

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.