Artist Quotes - Page 161

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers. As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs. Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement. As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.

Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.