Artist Quotes - page 4

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. (Charles Cooley)
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. View quote
Grandma Moses
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. View quote
Maria Callas
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. View quote
Tennessee Williams
What an artist dies in me! View quote
Nero
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. View quote
André Malraux
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them. View quote
Thornton Wilder
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. (Alberto Giacometti)
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. View quote
Kanye West
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. View quote
Robert Hughes
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A great artist is never poor. View quote
Karen Blixen
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. View quote
Henry Miller
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. View quote
Henry Miller
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. View quote
Billy Joel
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. (Steve Jobs)
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul. View quote
Kate Chopin
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. View quote
Abraham Maslow
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. View quote
Orson Welles
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. View quote
John Leguizamo