Quotes about artist
artist self order
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak. Julia Cameron
artist careers waiting
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
artist chance very-good
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
artist judging effort
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
artist labels
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. Patti Smith
artist long poet
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
artist doe facts
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
artist stuff proof
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
artist competition
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
artist people calling
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.
artist house citizens
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
artist giving creative
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
artist wounds
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
artist what-matters want
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
artist jars sensitive
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. P. G. Wodehouse
artist work-ethic ethics
All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her. Paul Oakenfold
artist please
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody. Paul Emsley
artist gertrude clay
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide. Paul Bowles
artist sight ego
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. Marya Mannes
artist way different
Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself. Mary J. Blige
artist giving want
That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.
artist doomed
Some of you are doomed to be artists. Martha Graham
artist criminals social
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. Marshall McLuhan
artist perception trends
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
artist creative lasts
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
artist perception training
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.
artist use realizing
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
artist draws fascinating
There's something fascinating about watching artists draw. Mark Hamill
artist dinner rest-of-your-life
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life. Mark Haddon
artist normal normal-life
An artist is maybe not always having a normal life. Marion Cotillard
artist voice fireworks
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. Maria Callas
artist done world
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done! Paul Auster
artist people world
Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.