Artist Quotes - page 5

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. (Jeff Koons)
I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature. View quote
Justin Bieber
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. View quote
Francis Bacon
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds. View quote
Barnett Newman
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. View quote
William Faulkner
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. View quote
Edgar Degas
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. View quote
André Gide
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. View quote
Émile Zola
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. (Studs Terkel)
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. View quote
Patti Smith
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. View quote
Salvador Dalí
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. View quote
Rembrandt
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. View quote
Edgard Varèse
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. View quote
Louis Nizer
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous. View quote
Toni Morrison
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. View quote
Elia Kazan
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. (Igor Stravinsky)
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is in front of the paper that the artist creates himself. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? View quote
Aldous Huxley