Artist Quotes

• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Wonder
  • Fascination
  • Eradicated

• 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
  • Jobs
  • Wrestling
  • Fighter

• I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Artist
  • Suffering
  • Healing

• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • People
  • Mind
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Sculpture
  • Truthfulness

• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mean

• A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Picture

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

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Artist
  • Admire
  • Queens

• Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.

  

  Dave Liebman
  • Different
  • Important
  • Challenges

• I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Home
  • Checks
  • Royalty

• Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Poet

• ... 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.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feelings

• The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Genius

• My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Function
  • Producers
  • Genuine

• 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.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • People
  • Political
  • Band

• Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

  

  Arthur Wesley Dow
  • Choices
  • Teach
  • Harmony

• Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

  

  Will Gompertz
  • Artist
  • Don't say

• The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

  

  Paul Horgan
  • Past
  • Artist
  • Afraid

• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Personality
  • Depression
  • Desires

• 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?

  

  Nayantara Sahgal
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Level

• I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Art
  • Lawyer
  • Expected

• This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Strange

• When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

  

  David Bowie
  • Style
  • Hands
  • Ends

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