Artist Quotes - page 10

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. (George Santayana)
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist. View quote
Julie Taymor
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others. View quote
Camille Paglia
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. View quote
Mark Tobey
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something. View quote
T. E. Hulme
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. View quote
Adrienne Rich
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. (James Baldwin)
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers - that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen. View quote
Paul Robeson
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality. View quote
E. E. Cummings
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! View quote
Charles M. Schulz
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. View quote
Auguste Rodin
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist. View quote
Auguste Rodin
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area. (Maynard James Keenan)
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name. View quote
Tom Petty
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying. View quote
Tom Petty
When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way. View quote
John Banville
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. View quote
John Barth