Artist Quotes - Page 173

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists.

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.