Quotes about artist
artist ideas emotion
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good. Pablo Picasso
artist misery hunger
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
artist stealing poor
It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
artist class distinction
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
artist past paint
When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
artist firsts thirds
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
artist elements world
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
artist age today
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
artist paint theme
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
artist vanity greed
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.
artist interesting matter
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
artist imitation copies
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
artist maps lines
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
artist worry technique
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
artist difficult hated
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
artist done needs
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
artist hiroshima-and-nagasaki genius
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
artist order individuality
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
artist painting
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
artist long kind
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know? Paul McDonald
artist ageing admire
I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge. Paul McGann
artist study realizing
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. Paul Cezanne
artist inches painter
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
artist oil nervous
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
artist way ifs
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
artist color richness
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
artist rothschild paint
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
artist world understand-me
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
artist landscape clear
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
artist optics study
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
artist painting painter
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
artist rivers littles
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
artist years stopping
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.