Artist Quotes

• The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Quality
  • Courage
  • Kid

• Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Artist
  • Selfish
  • Good Reason

• There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Success
  • Artist
  • Integrity

• As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Artist
  • Arc
  • Parabola

• I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Song
  • Style

• It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artist
  • Counts

• The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Heal

• O, had I but followed the arts!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Artist

• Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Society
  • Mirror
  • Reflection

• Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • Strong
  • Supporter
  • Exceptional

• If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Not Work

• An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

  

  Charles E. Burchfield
  • Artist
  • Colors
  • Contrasts

• Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • She
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • True
  • Picture

• Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Work
  • Business
  • Breaths

• The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual feelings you were going through during that time.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Realize
  • Focusing

• I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

  

  Andrew Levitas
  • Life
  • Work
  • Approach

• To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Mean
  • Feelings
  • Intelligent

• The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Imagination
  • Artist
  • Greatest

• Every artists wants to be applauded

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Want
  • Artist

• Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching of creation to mankind. All honor to the man who treats it sacredly; who studies, as in God's presence, the thoughts of God which are expressed to him; and makes all things according to the pattern which he is ever ready to show to earnest and reverent genius on the mount.

  

  Jason Paul "J" Brown Five
  • Work
  • God
  • Genius

• The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Brain
  • Expression
  • Invisible

• I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Long
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Artist
  • Struggle
  • Feelings

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