Artist Quotes
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An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
Eric Maisel
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
Paul Gauguin
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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
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound
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I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.
Regina King
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There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!
Jill Soloway
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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
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I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living
Georges St-Pierre
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No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
Eric Maisel
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Thomas Kinkade
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I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.
Darren Fletcher
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
Richard Feynman
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).
Marcel Proust
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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
Dolly Parton
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My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Ethan Hawke
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I will be an artist or nothing!
Eugene O'Neill