Artist Quotes - Page 16

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.