Quotes About Artist

An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him — and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." —ÉMILE ZOLA

Miss Rice loaned me the negatives, and I ordered these prints from the drugstore in town. No comparison to Josh's work. He was gifted in a dying art form. I don't think he would've cared for the age of digital cameras.

And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

Costa stepped out of the Jeep, smiling as if attending an exhibition where he was the featured artist. Elwood Mills handcuffed himself to the murder suspect so that Costa would not try to make an escape in the dense woods.

Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist's fame.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The artist, especially the poet, has always known this to be wrong. He knows that time shortens and lengthens, without regard to the minute hand.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him, even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Po tom višku koji nosi svako umetni?ko delo kao neki trag tajanstvene saradnje izme?u prirode i umetnika, vidi se demonsko poreklo umetnosti. Postoji legenda da ?e Antihrist, kada se bude pojavio na zemlji, stvarati sve što je i Bog stvorio, samo sa ve?om veštinom i sa više savršenstva [...] Možda je umetnik prete?a Antihrista. Možda se hiljade i hiljade nas igramo Antihrista, kao što se deca, usred mira, igraju rata.

He'd be working late in his studio tonight—alone. He was a man who disliked company, who held people in contempt, though he made his living immortalizing them.

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE

Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

La California de Dean… salvaje, sudorosa, importante, el país donde se unen como los pájaros los solitarios, los excéntricos, los exiliados, el país donde en cierto modo todo el mundo tiene aspecto de guapo artista de cine decadente y hundido.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame.

Why didn't you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn't a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden?

It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.

It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.