Artist Quotes - Page 43

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

The art of art... is simplicity.