Quotes on Artist

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.