Quotes About Artist

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into my soul, Mr. Cunningham, she said. I suppose it is the artist in you.

La naturaleza es una maravilla, ¿verdad? — dijo ella, sentándose en una roca de superficie plana y ordenando las conchas sobre la rodilla. —Siempre — convino él—, incluso cuando sus efectos son catastróficos para los seres humanos que han intentado dominarla o desafiarla. Es la quintaesencia del artista perfecto, y también sabe producir cosas tan frágiles y exquisitas como esas conchas.

a great artist has to combine observation with imagination. (p. 78)

But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment.

Yes, but the artist? said Nigel almost fiercely. He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.

Ils durent prendre le tramway pour se rendre au prochain musée, la Maison de Rembrandt, qui était (comme son nom l'indique), la maison de Rembrandt [...].

She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Its the critic's job to interpret the artist, even to the artist himself.

All his life had been a struggle for power—not political power, which he disdained, but the power of culture. For him culture and civilization were everything. He had said that the greatest freedom of man was his "independence of thought," which enabled the artist to enjoy the "aggression of infinite modes of being.

He had said that the greatest freedom of man was his "independence of thought," which enabled the artist to enjoy the "aggression of infinite modes of being.

The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.

I love to just get in the booth. Put some tracks down. I'm basically Rihanna.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.