Quotes About Artist

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development

Matisse said, "A work of art must, both for the businessman and for the artist, be a mental tranquilizer, something in the nature of an armchair that gives him ease and comfort after bodily fatigue.

Van Dongen was still there, with his Dutch wife and their little daughter, for whom Picasso made a sinister doll out of a black stocking; but van Dongen's days of extreme poverty, his diet of spinach alone, were almost at an end, for he had painted a fine erotic nude of Fernande (though its origin was never acknowledged)

hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of art. An

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.