Artist Quotes - Page 92

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.