Quotes about artist
artist play way
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. Lukas Foss
artist thieves doe
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss
artist firsts fingers-crossed
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one. Luke Bryan
artist albums luke
Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome. Luke Bryan
artist giving feelings
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. Lucian Freud
artist next interest
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Lucian Freud
artist purpose tasks
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable. Lucian Freud
artist surroundings
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Lucian Freud
artist play risk
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't. M. Night Shyamalan
artist musician poet
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. Loren Eiseley
artist want able
I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell. Malcolm D. Lee
artist car drug
Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or anything close to it, and I don't have shootouts or explosions or car chases ... There aren't a bunch of drugs in the videos and I am not wearing hot pants, and I don't dance. So, as far as videos or anything visually is concerned, I'm not a very visually stimulating artist. Gavin DeGraw
artist you-re-pretty knows
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there. Gavin Rossdale
artist feminist-art needs
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. Frida Kahlo
artists audience cannot companies compete copyright enables label law musical napster percent pool provides reach record signed together
The law provides that companies cannot get together and pool their copyright and use them for anticompetitive purposes, ... Only about 2 percent of musical artists are signed to record label contracts. Napster enables the other 98 percent to reach audience and compete with record labels. David Boies
artists internet learn powerful problems provides reach starting
The Internet provides a powerful way to get around these problems and artists are starting to learn how to use it to reach out to fans.
artist cameras telling-the-truth
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. Edward Weston
artist explorers
An artist is an explorer. Henri Matisse
artist light color
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. Henri Matisse
artist effort mastery
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse
artist people broken
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. Henri Nouwen
artist air people
Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way. Henri Nouwen
artist soul
The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden. Henri Nouwen
artist males jackasses
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. Heinrich Boll
artist people what-if
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns. Heidi Julavits
artist giving interesting
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work. Helen Mirren
artistic tragic artistic-temperament
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. Heather O'Neill
artist choices faces
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Henry James
artist circles problem
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. Henry James
artist ideas criticism
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. Henry James
artist oil cameras
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. Henry Flynt
artist makeup sixteen
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. Helena Rubinstein
artist busy disappear
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace. Helen Vendler