Quotes on Artist

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.