Quotes About Artist

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

You know what? I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm gonna make art, arty art art!

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

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

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.