Quotes About Artist

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.