Quotes on Artist

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.