Artist Quotes - Page 181

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

As an artist, and for me personally, my biggest fear is categorization. I hate the idea that I would become someone who says that "this is what I do and now that's what I am." What I really feel like is an explorer. I want to continue exploring my brain cave and see what's there, you know? And I don't want to just stay in one cave.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say, "No! That's not my America, not the America I know." I'm honored - it's just not me. But as we were saying before, the artist loses control.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.