Quotes on Artist

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

The artist...is the voice of the people.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.