Artist Quotes - Page 59

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

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. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have.

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.

I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.