Artist Quotes - Page 216

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

A great artist is never poor.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.