Quotes about artist
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.
artist soul
The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.
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.
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.
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
artist artistic craftsman
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
artist audacity talent
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
artist want body
You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist. Hamish Linklater
artist opportunity
Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself. Gustave Moreau
artist expression ratios
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Gustave Courbet
artist essence transcendentalism
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
artist people world
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. John Maeda
artist people horizon
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
artist want littles
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk. John Lone
artist mirrors rooms
I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are. John Lydon
artist keys people
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. John Legend
artist icons style
Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.
artist people growing
Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
artist singers working-with-others
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
artist judging legends
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
artist people records
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
artist duty
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.
artist hierarchy lucky
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again. John Lennon
artist misunderstood needs
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.
artist simplicity rounds
The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.