Quotes on Artist

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.