Artists Quotes
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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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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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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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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All men are creative but few are artists.
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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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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.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
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While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.
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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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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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It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
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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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Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
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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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An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool...
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I like handsome-devil artists the best.
