Quotes About Artist

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition.

You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old she-wolves with livid marks running up their ribs and arms, and not to the idea of fights in which people are neither painlessly killed nor painlessly fixed up but linger and die--slowly--or heal--slowly.

And it's not because I'm tortured Or by some delirium swayed That I conjure up misfortune: It is just my trade.

What artist could recreate Sidonie's sensuous beauty? No mere dauber could capture the feminine musk on the air. Or depict the soft, uneven pattern of her breathing. Her skin was flushed. A pulse fluttered in the hollow of her throat. Her lips were full and dark, although he'd hardly kissed her. Over and over in the mirrors, she emerged from the loosened gown like a water lily from a lake. He loomed over her like a nightmare.

I think that a real artist should irrevocably and completely dedicate herself to art. ... I have realized that true art gives joy not only to the artist but also to the people, suspending them for a moment from life's sorrows. In this I see the great significance of art, and the awareness of this became the aim of my life. ...

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

I'm not a programmer; I'm more of a performer. I'm really bad at math.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game. I feel like I am progressing as an artist, as a writer and as a performer and I know that there will be that one moment that will change everything.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this is my project, here you go.