Quotes About Artist

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

A biographer is an artist under oath.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.

The artist has been kind to me," she said softly, not looking at him. "The artist drew what he saw. What he sees even now," he said. A single tear slipped down her cheek. "I wish this were easier, Jake." "Nothing is easy, Aletta. At least nothing worth having.

And who knows what our neighbor is, after all? A saint, an angel unawares, a genius, an artist, a devil, a dreamer of great dreams, or an abscess in the form of a man? Who knows? We never really see each other, and that is at once the mystery and the terror of living.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

I know why the best blues artist comes from Mississippi," Hooker told an interviewer from Melody Maker in 1964. "Because it's the worst state. You have the blues all right if you're down in Mississippi.

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

That, to me, is the real crossover: a mainstream artist singing in Spanish.

I was an art history major and I really love art. I wanted to give them artist names. 'The Ninja Turtles' happen to have artist names as well and they work in both Spanish and English.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.

I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.