Quotes About Artist

I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god." Umegat emptied his cup. "The gods love their great-souled men and women as an artist loves fine marble, but the issue isn't virtue. It is will. Which is chisel and hammer.

To the end of his life he remained convinced of the high calling of the genuine artist, and he knew that artists must sometimes toil in obscurity, and in the face of prevailing public opinion.

But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn't be an artist.

It is a true desire of every artist to impose his or her vision on the world

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon which, in crushing, benumbs.

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

No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes

His mental image of the artist was the novelist, who writes into being a world where everything, from a finger to the cosmos, is expressed as part of an unfolding of consciousness.

He looked down at her, the wild reckless passion of the artist in his eyes, daring her to tame him, begging her to try.

Create, artist! Do not talk!