Artist Quotes - Page 180

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.