Artist Quotes - Page 71

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.