Quotes on Artist

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

The artist must forget the audience, _x000D_ forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music._x000D_ Then, the music speaks through the performance,_x000D_ and the performer and the listener will walk together_x000D_ with the soul of the composer, and with_x000D_ God.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

Art is what you can get away with.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'