Quotes on True Artists

If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.