Artist Quotes - Page 20

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Artists deserve to make a living

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.