Quotes on Artist

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products.

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.