Quotes about artist
artist feelings thrill
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone. Andre Malraux
artist discovery order
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
artist building-up doe
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
artist
I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties. Anthony Kiedis
artist media color
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
artist political best-work
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political. Alicia Keys
artist people may
You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well. Alice Walker
artist roles tools
The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack. Ali Partovi
artist order essence
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
artist tea finding-yourself
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself. Anne Lamott
artist dabs definitions
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest. Albert Brooks
artist lifetime deep-within
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. Albert Camus
artist revolution birth
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
artist scorn true-artists
True artists scorn nothing.
artist able modern
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
artist judging community
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
artist people trying
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody. Amanda Palmer
artist unexpected feels
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
artist dots share
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
artist thinking meditation
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.
artist faces musician
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
artist shooting helping
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. Annie Leibovitz
artist stones rolling
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
artist awkward want
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
artist vocabulary style
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
artist one-day mystery
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
artist information faces
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
artist metal-fans weight
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
artist talking needs
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
artist would-be different
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
artist choices environmental
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
artist cameras photographer
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
artist scared wanted
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.