Quotes About Artists

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

This was an important trip for me. Twelve artists in all were there, including several I admired—Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Chris Burden, Brice Marden, Joan Jonas, and Pat Steir—and

Lo injusta que es a veces la suerte con los artistas que sueñan con encontrar el Paraíso en este terrenal valle de lágrimas.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are, Pauson as less noble, Dionysius drew them true to life.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Words do not always need a destination.We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.Running around headless in the vague zone.And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

In the years before the Communist revolution of 1949, the US-educated scholars, scientists, and artists in China made up the backbone of the country's scientific and intellectual elite and served as the conscience of their nation.

Honoring artists on a par with military heroes was a humanistic innovation intiated at Brunelleschi's death in 1446.

may occasionally pay lip-service to their value, but it ultimately has no real use for artists, dancers, poets, self-sufficient farmers, tree lovers, devoted followers of what it views as non-materialist cults — Christian or otherwise — handicraft workers, makers of their own beer, or, for that matter, stay-at-home moms and dads, all of whom, when they endure at all, do so at the margins and on the periphery of the social economy.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

Pe masura ce arta se infunda in impas, se inmultesc artistii. Aceasta anomalie inceteaza sa mai existe ca atare cand te gandesti ca arta, pe cale de epuizare, a devenit in acelasi timp si imposibila si facila.

Literary immortality is an unsubstantial fiction devised by literary artists for their own especial consolation. It means, at the best, an existence prolonged through an infinitesimal fraction of that infinitesimal fraction of the world's history during which man has played his part upon it.

The sweetest of all consolations to suffering souls, to martyrs, to artists, in the worst of that divine agony which hatred and envy force upon them, is to meet with praise where they have hitherto found censure and injustice.

Perhaps the mind cannot be complete at all points; perhaps artists of every kind live too much in the present moment to study the future; perhaps they are too observant of the ridiculous to notice snares, or they may believe that none would dare to lay a snare for such as they.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

is entirely appropriate that in twenty-first-century Britain streets that were once filled with artists now contain Britain's highest concentration of advertising agencies; real artists displaced by the counterfeit, the second rate; creative individuals prostituting their talent.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

In Milan, I'm treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It's wonderful living where artists are revered.