Quotes About Artist

The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.

The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is from reaching his goal; and while others may perhaps admire him, he laments the fact that he has not yet reached the point whither his better genius only lights the way for him like a distant sun.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

True, I'd never met him. And true, he was a fictional character. But he also was what people needed him to be: a dashing hero, and articulate peacemaker, a cunning excape artist.

O it does fascinate me so, my new-old-new friend, to compare our lives. Of course I am really not an artist or a writer tho' I am a story-teller. I am a born orator and even now I long & long & long for The Platform as an old circus clown longs—or as we pretend he longs for the Ring! On the platform and there alone I am really myself & in my element & now I have been away from the platform for 20 years!

Trying to get your friends to obsess over your favorite musician.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.