Quotes About Artist

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.