Quotes About Artist

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

There is, even from my point of view, a great difference between beauty in art and beauty in nature. For, in the case of nature, there is no artist; while, as I observed just now, "a work of art requires an artist, not merely in the order of natural causation, but in the order of aesthetic necessity. It conveys a message which is valueless to the recipient unless it be understood by the sender.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.

An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty -- a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion.

This is what she really thought of him; he was an engineer, not an artist. And yet, there was art in his work, in the soar of a structure and the arch of a bridge, in every framework of light and air and iron.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

If you see me as a controversial artist or controversial human being, then I could be cashing in on some reality shows. I am not doing anything like that. That's not my aim.

It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.

As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity.

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

I am the first Tamil film artiste to receive the Padmashree.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

I'm very receptive to direction, to change, and to developing myself as an artist and human.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.