Artist Quotes - Page 33

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

I will be an artist or nothing!

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.