Artist Quotes - Page 60

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.