Artist Quotes

Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and ...

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn...

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly ...

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomo...

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedr...

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bend...

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,...

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven time...

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objec...

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and t...

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because,...

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just t...

To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look...

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, ...

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has...

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i...

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxi...

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way...

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty o...

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process t...

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...

Art is I science is we.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, fla...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, wher...

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tel...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from t...

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. An...

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to t...

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhi...

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic...

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work...

...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to th...

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no...

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for th...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someon...

I want to be famous but unknown!

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the fin...

The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his o...

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. I...

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,Than a sublime art frivolously.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is re...

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically oppo...

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and disc...

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great...

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to...

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way...

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical ...

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Oh say can you see Alma. The darlingof Them. All her friends were artists.They alone have memories. ...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under ...

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, lik...

Caricature is rough truth.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Art is a delayed echo.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art upsets science reassures.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be consci...

Art is a kind of illness.