Quotes About Artist

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.

Who's the artist? My favorite. She pauses. Unknown. Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

He came in as soon as we opened, asked for a growling panther on his shoulder blade. He fainted the moment I started." "A growling panther?" "Yep." "Then why are you giving him a tattoo of a kitten?" Finbar shrugged. "I'm just in a kitten kind of mood, y'know?

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...

The hours, the dedication, the obsessiveness that must have been required to do this was breathtaking. Staggering. But you walked away not so much with admiration for the artist as concern for her mental health.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

The root problem with the bloated image of the artist that haunts modernity, I suggest, is not the way the artist is being pictured but the model of divine transcendence that feeds it (and which in turn is fed by it). What kind of deity lurks there?

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Graphic expression is the artist's impression...

If a tortured artist hurls a nasty email at 10 p.m. and then a love song at 11:20, are you up or down?