Artist Quotes - Page 17

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.

Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even their life, is in front of them. To look only to the past and to say ‘those were the best years, when I was young’ is to say that in the future there is nothing.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.