Artist Quotes - Page 56

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

I'd say my style is all me, It's different from other artist even in my city or outside of my city.