Artist Quotes - Page 152

One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.