Artists Quotes

Great artists suffer for the people.

Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by so...

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist...

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does ...

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael a...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man ...

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist...

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what th...

Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he's and artist, and there's somethi...

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in ...

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, s...

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating ever...

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged con...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that se...

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vie...

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the s...

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fello...

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous inter...

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting...

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that ta...

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, bec...

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between mom...

For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among ...

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the o...

All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like th...

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man...

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a...

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful work...

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wo...

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a real...

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

. . . there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it wa...

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things...

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary low...

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless ...

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in thi...

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly s...

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometime...

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper...

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pil...

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political cri...

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and m...

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they shoul...

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with simil...

The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become smal...

How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs...

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of tha...

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes ...

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better th...

The best artists know what to leave out.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also...

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been do...

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselv...

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everyth...

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in ...

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's the...

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are ru...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

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

Miss Mapp moved towards the screen."What a delicious big screen," she said."Yes, but don't go behind...