Quotes on Artist

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with 'style' because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their works arose rather in defiance of their times.

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.