Artist Quotes
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The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.
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A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
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I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
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I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
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The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
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n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
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I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".
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I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.
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It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
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I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.
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I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.
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As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.
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Only artists without talent try to shock people.
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As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.
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Every true artist is at war with the world.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.
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Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
