Artist Quotes

• Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Artist
  • Difference
  • Temperament

• The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Numbers
  • Contemporary
  • Appeals

• No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Kind

• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Artist
  • Admire
  • Queens

• Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Nature
  • Artist
  • Confusion

• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

  

  William Blake
  • Artist
  • Really
  • Copy

• As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Move
  • Photographer
  • Prepare

• The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Adventure

• I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

  

  Candida Hofer
  • Artist
  • Interest
  • Statements

• Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

  

  Will Gompertz
  • Artist
  • Don't say

• It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

  

  David Bowie
  • Home
  • Artist
  • Alive

• The great artist is the simplifier.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Writing
  • Artist

• In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Order

• My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Art
  • Night
  • Morning

• For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.

  

  Audrey Flack
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Boundaries

• I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • World
  • Artist
  • Consciousness

• I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Politics
  • Write
  • Characters

• That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Power
  • Artist
  • Possess

• The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Artist
  • Discovery
  • Work Of Art

• An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Universe
  • Achieve
  • Successes

• The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Party
  • Mean

• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  

  William Goldman
  • Art
  • Care
  • Praying

• Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

  

  Caridad Svich
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Artist
  • Shape
  • Poem

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