Quotes About Artist

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.