Quotes about artist
artist use reason
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. Flannery O'Connor
artist strangeness
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
artist favorite-artist gucci
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist. Fetty Wap
artist people knows
If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.
artist years people
A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers. Ferran Adria
artist trying shapes
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this. Henry Moore
artist observation
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
artist america individuality
I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. Henry Miller
artist giving grace
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
artist literature horizon
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
artist instruments creator
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
artist drawing silence
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence. Henri Cartier-Bresson
artist great-art thinker
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
artist impact relief
It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair. Cat Stevens
artist novelists benefits
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. George Eliot
artist suffering instruments
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] Gary Shteyngart
artist work-out design
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that. Gabriel Basso
artist defense lasts
These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense. Frank Iero
artist should-have should
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. Frank Auerbach
artist nashville community
In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike Christopher Cross
artist please shows
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show. Christian Morgenstern
artist people mind
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist. Christian Wiman
artist important fans
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it. Irving Azoff
artistic becoming change director feels less life major opera
Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading, Placido Domingo
artists begin children focusing love natural perseverance personal values
By focusing on the personal values of the artists ? their determination, perseverance and love of the natural world ? the children begin to sense that the artists are real people.
artist world tolerate
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is. Friedrich Nietzsche
artist creative feelings
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
artist great-work great-art
All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
artist choices way
An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
artist average remarkable
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
artist singers should
I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist. Jessie Ware
artist two waiting
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. Jet Li
artist play-hard sometimes
I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard. Jessie J