Quotes about artist
artist honest never-good-enough
If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough. Jenny Holzer
artist ideas people
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider. Jenny Holzer
artist people holy-grail
People tweet me all the time and tell me how much they love it, how they can't wait for the show to come back on, that they're addicted to the show. So that's really rewarding. As an artist, we're all looking for that connection to an audience and when you find people as diehard as our fans are - it's sort of like finding the holy grail. Glen Mazzara
artist political musician
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life...but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. Gilberto Gil
artist creative criticism
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. Gilbert K. Chesterton
artist touching shadow
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. Gilbert K. Chesterton
artist age becoming
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth. Harry Seidler
artist joy curiosity
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing George Grosz
artist phrases use
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence. George Henry Lewes
artist men imagination
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. George Henry Lewes
artist vision tests
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. George Henry Lewes
artist perspective comedian
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world. Harland Williams
artist pay life-is
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. H. R. Giger
artist trying looks
I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do. Gustav Klimt
artist want looks
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. Gustav Klimt
artist musical age
I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort. Gunther Schuller
artist trying use
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists. Gus Van Sant
artist desire conquer
[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images. Gunter Grass
artist oscars lost
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish. Jim Broadbent
artist should-have construction-workers
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk. Howard Schultz
artist literature force
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. Honore de Balzac
artist hip-hop competition
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." Ice T
artist fire creative
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire. Ice T
artist average voice
With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you. Ice T
artist people instigators
People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping. Ice Cube
artists became greatest
He became one of the greatest artists that will ever be. Ever, ever. Faye Dunaway
artists attract draw great innovators lightning original thinkers wrath
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
artists began convince hard internet method money people reason scam since time trace tracking transfer wire
For the first time since we began tracking Internet fraud, wire transfer was the No. 1 method of payment. It's really alarming. The whole reason why scam artists try to convince people to wire money to them is because it's so hard to trace and track wire transfers.
artist thinking
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. Isaac Hanson
artist design designer
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. Isaac Mizrahi
artist lineage mood
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. Ellen Forney
artistic darkest good moves projects sort star work
I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.' Joel Kinnaman
artistic believe community difference lives
I believe in this community and its artistic roots, and (I) want to be part of an organization that makes a difference in the lives of residents and artists.