Artist Quotes
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I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.
George Rickey
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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.
Ernst Junger
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
Terrace Martin
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
Tom Wesselmann
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From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.
Paul Klee
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
Stephen Tobolowsky
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If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.
Catherine Yass
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Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
Michael Horton
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TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
Cheyenne Kimball
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Lois McMaster
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I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.
Sharon Stone
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Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
Edward J. Fraughton
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
David Galenson
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I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.
Njena Surae Jarvis
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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
John Prine
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Minoru Yamasaki
