Quotes About Artist

Dietro la natura morta c'è un artista vivente.

Most stolen art is gone forever.... The lone bit of good news is that the better the painting, the better the odds it will someday be found. – Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

At any point along that path, your job as an artist is to push craft to its limits — without being trapped by it. The trap is perfection: unless your work continually generates new and unresolved issues, there's no reason for your next work to be any different from the last.

But while you may feel you're pretending that you're an artist, there's no way to pretend you're making art. Go ahead, try writing a story while pretending you're writing a story. Not possible.

If art is made by ordinary people, then you'd have to allow that the ideal artist would be an ordinary person too, with the whole usual mixed bag of traits that real human beings possess.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

If, however, the observers see the poiesis in the work they cease at once being observers. They find themselves in its time, aware that it remains unfinished, aware that their reading of the poetry is itself poetry. Infected then by the genius of the artist they recover their own genius, becoming beginners with nothing but possibility ahead of them.

Watching Dad figure things out was like watching an artist paint a picture. He used to say an investigation was a lot like art, just a blank canvas and a whole lot of different colors in little jars. All the clues were there, just like a painting was already in those little jars of paint. But you had to mix them together and put them on the canvas right, so it all made sense.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

And that's the day I became an artist. Nobody blames an artist for noticing stuff.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

But no artist, I now realise, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gainsaid.

I shall have to adopt a disguise,' said Luke with a sudden grin. 'What do you suggest? Artist? Hardly—I can't draw, let alone paint.' 'You could be a modern artist,' suggested Jimmy, 'Then that wouldn't matter.

A crime can be a work of art. A detective can be an artist.

Seeing how much hope my father still cherished for my prospects as an artist, I felt like starting over in painting. I began sketching again.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.