Quotes about artist
artist ideas water
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging, Robert Hughes
artist scotland actors
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. Roddy Woomble
artist two giving
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought. Rodney Crowell
artist world doe
Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.' Robyn
artist people forever
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. Robert Mapplethorpe
artist rude secret
The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
artist body naked
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
artist drug use
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.
artist want normal
I just want to be written about as a normal artist
artist people frustrating
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
artist people different
I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems. Sandra Cisneros
artist media voice
It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control. Roseanne Barr
artist nerd listening
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.
artist views people
A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.
artist audience
An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist. Rokia Traore
artist chance thanks
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.
artist kitsch way
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium. Roger Scruton
artist expectations innovation
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.
artist crowds members
Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. Roger Ebert
artist europe america
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior. William Faulkner
artist space ideas
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. Willem de Kooning
artist term ought
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. Witold Gombrowicz
artist wish different
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. Wole Soyinka
artist people want
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from. Wiz Khalifa
artist trying different
I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things. Wes Borland
artist play space
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening. Will Oldham
artist paint draws
I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist. Zac Efron
artist perspective want
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music. Ziggy Marley
artist doe world
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. Washington Allston
artist confusion raw-materials
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. William Ernest Henley
artist giving criticism
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
artist actors knows
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. William Hurt
artist actors want
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily