Quotes About Artist

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

My bottom line is that I think Ridley Scott is one of the greatest visual artists of our time and I feel very privileged that he wants to work with me, so I go with that flow.

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.