Browsing Topic Best Artist Quotes

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

There’s a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want.

Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don’t make it any harder on yourself.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I don’t want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don’t already agree with him.

An artist’s working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don’t have time to listen to other artists all that much.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Great art can only be created out of love.

If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot!

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.