Quotes on Artist

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.