Quotes on Artist

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.