Quotes on Artist

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.