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Quotes About Artist

Then Maclintick made that harrowing remark that established throughout all eternity his relationship with Moreland. 'I obey you, Moreland,' he said, 'with the proper respect of the poor interpretative hack for the true creative artist.
~ Anthony Powell
L'artiste qui n'a pas ausculté le cÅ"ur de l'homme, l'artiste qui ignore qu'il est un bouc émissaire, que son devoir est d'aimanter, d'attirer, de faire tomber sur ses épaules les colères errantes de l'époque pour la décharger de son mal-être psychologique, celui-là n'est pas un artiste.
~ Antonin Artaud
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.
~ Arnold Arre
The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.
~ Arnold Bennett
The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself.
~ Arnold Bennett
It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop. He wished to improve that which was already perfect . . . and so he ruined all.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I told them that Karl Marx was a theory and that theories change. Today it was this theory, tomorrow that one. But Tolstoi was a great artist and art remains forever.
~ Sholem Aleichem
I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.
~ James Agee
Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.
~ Jeffrey Deitch
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
~ Jill Sobule
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
~ Tom Wolfe
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.
~ Henry Miller
There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control.
~ Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.
~ Unarine Ramaru
If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.
~ Sagar Gosavi
Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
~ Quentin Crisp
Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary
~ John Piper
When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.
~ John Shearman
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michelangelo is not conceivable.
~ John Stuart Blackie
Perhaps no artist in history had ever been treated so gingerly.
~ John T. Spike
Inherent in the artist's creative inspiration is the process of subliminally sniffing out environmental change," observed McLuhan in a 1969 interview. "It's always been the artist who perceives the alterations in man caused by a new medium, who recognizes that the future is the present, and uses his work to prepare the ground for it."70
~ John W. Whitehead
I thought I was reading but suddenly I'm read. Some kind of artist then, painting his targets. Distinct or indistinct sensation? I prefer clarity when I can afford it. So what if another flower plagiarized the rosary?
~ Elizabeth Willis
Henri? He's just the most famous, most creative, most amazing colorist in the universe, that's all!
~ Ellen Miles