Artist Quotes
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.
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I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
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I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.
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The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.
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The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.
