Quotes on Artist

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.