Quotes About Artist

My art has gained some high value.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.