Artist Quotes - Page 48

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.