Artist Quotes
-
Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
-
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
-
I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
-
I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
-
The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
-
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
-
The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
-
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
-
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
-
The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
-
The great artist is the simplifier.
-
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
-
What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?
-
I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.
-
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
-
I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
-
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
-
Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
-
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
-
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.
-
Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.
-
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
-
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
-
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.
