Artist Quotes - Page 151

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm sure as more and more artists come to use these sorts of media, the expertise amongst conservators is going to keep pace with that.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.