Artist Quotes
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We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
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I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.
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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
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One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.
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Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints and the woodcut is the most graphic of the print processes.
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We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project.
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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In our time photojournalists were as important as the writers. Today not so. Photojournalism is diminishing. Now everyone is a free artist, which can only be in photography. For he is taking pictures! Releases the shutter and becomes an artist. Godsend people they are, otherwise the world was doomed. They are so significant. I fear bumping into one of these celebrities walking in the street, which would be very disrespectful indeed.
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The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
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I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
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In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
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It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
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I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
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It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.
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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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If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
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It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.
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To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
