Artists Quotes
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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All men are creative but few are artists.
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An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
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Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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I’ve seen a lot of musicians play that, and I don’t want to do that because I have a saying that most artists are failures as human beings.
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Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.
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A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'
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Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.
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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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I like handsome-devil artists the best.
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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
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It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
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When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
