Quotes about artist
artist lines britain
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice. Vivienne Westwood
artist space culture
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
artist color islands
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
artist rocks firsts
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
artist drawing sketching
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. Vincent Van Gogh
artist life-death difficult
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
artist great-art great-artist
The great artist is the simplifier.
artist imagination taste
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
artist soul painting
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
artist paper easy
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
artist ideas trying
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
artist alive irony
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.
artist men compass
Conscience is a man's compass.
artist suffering atheism
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
artist bread murphy
Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
artist giving quality
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
artist solitary
The artist after all is a solitary being. Virginia Woolf
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
artist rooms needs
All artists need a room of their own
artist order effort
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
artist sun eternity
Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake
artist innocence harlots
Every harlot was a virgin once.
artist differences thought-provoking
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
artist echoes soul
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia. Werner Herzog
artist feelings craftsman
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.
artist people profound
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics. Wayne Swan
artist order criticism
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. Wayne Thiebaud
artist people discipline
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations…
artist giving commit
When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you. Wayne White
artist communicate
I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
artist people bottom
Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
artist careers lucky
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
artist lifestyle being-an-artist
Being an artist is a lifestyle.