Artist Quotes
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As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
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Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.
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Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
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The artist is the bearer of life.
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People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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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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The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.
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Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!
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If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go.
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
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As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
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Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.
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I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
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That’s part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you’re trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
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I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.
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Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
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I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
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I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
