Artist Quotes
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Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
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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.
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You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
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I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
