Artist Quotes - Page 79

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.

The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.