Quotes About Artist

Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Once upon a time…there lived a young artist. Many of the works that he created seemed to have the spark of life within them, and they captured the hearts of the people. One of those people was another young man…who was entranced by the artist's work. He wished to possess those works of art by any means possible. And in reality…their wishes were one and the same.

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.

James Montgomery Flagg emerged almost overnight as America's preeminent poster artist. As

for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order.

I am not an artist in the independent sense, I'm part of dynamic situations, and that's where I like it.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist.

Él es el artista; yo, la anarquista.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

The decadent artist markets other people's pain

However, in 1774, when she was nineteen, her materials were confiscated by government authorities. They had caught wind of the young artist's success; it was illegal to work as an artist without guild or academy membership – something that, as a woman, was very difficult to achieve.

The day my daughter was born, I was still in the studio, trying to work on my Venus Binding the Wings of Cupid in the intervals between labour pains.

If it is true that this is the first portrait of an artist at work, it could be because she came from the northern tradition which specialized in depictions of St Luke painting the Virgin, and she had the wit to adapt this example of a working artist for herself.

I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long...." His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable." "And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.

Si vous me demandez ce que je viens faire en ce monde, moi artiste, je vous répondrai: je viens vivre tout haut.

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I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the blood and tears involved in giving of one's flesh, in trying to make something that lives...the endless the defeats, the struggle with the angel.' (ix)