Top artist Quotes Collection - Page 6

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Image of Yayoi Kusama
I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.
- Yayoi Kusama
Collection: Artist
Image of Mark Van Doren
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.
- Mark Van Doren
Collection: Artist
Image of Eli Siegel
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?
- Eli Siegel
Collection: Artist
Image of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Collection: Artist
Image of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Collection: Artist
Image of Odilon Redon
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
- Odilon Redon
Collection: Artist
Image of Odilon Redon
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
- Odilon Redon
Collection: Artist
Image of Zac Posen
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
- Zac Posen
Collection: Artist
Image of Zac Posen
There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
- Zac Posen
Collection: Artist
Image of Lawrence Calcagno
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.
- Lawrence Calcagno
Collection: Artist
Image of Elspeth Huxley
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
- Elspeth Huxley
Collection: Artist
Image of Paul Strand
If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
- Paul Strand
Collection: Artist
Image of Paul Strand
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.
- Paul Strand
Collection: Artist
Image of Shusha Guppy
It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.
- Shusha Guppy
Collection: Artist
Image of Janet Flanner
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.
- Janet Flanner
Collection: Artist
Image of Chico Hamilton
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.
- Chico Hamilton
Collection: Artist
Image of Nicholas Haslam
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth—artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
- Nicholas Haslam
Collection: Artist
Image of Jean-Georges Noverre
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.
- Jean-Georges Noverre
Collection: Artist
Image of Jean-Georges Noverre
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.
- Jean-Georges Noverre
Collection: Artist
Image of Ken Danby
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
- Ken Danby
Collection: Artist
Image of Ken Danby
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.
- Ken Danby
Collection: Artist
Image of James Turrell
I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.
- James Turrell
Collection: Artist
Image of Isabel Bishop
I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.
- Isabel Bishop
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Henry Flynt
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
- Henry Flynt
Collection: Artist
Image of Robert Genn
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
- Robert Genn
Collection: Artist
Image of Ari Emanuel
We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.
- Ari Emanuel
Collection: Artist
Image of Beverly Johnson
There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back
- Beverly Johnson
Collection: Artist
Image of Ken Burns
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
- Ken Burns
Collection: Artist
Image of Billy Currington
Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.
- Billy Currington
Collection: Artist
Image of Charles E. Burchfield
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.
- Charles E. Burchfield
Collection: Artist
Image of Georg Baselitz
As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.
- Georg Baselitz
Collection: Artist
Image of Georg Baselitz
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.
- Georg Baselitz
Collection: Artist
Image of Georg Baselitz
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.
- Georg Baselitz
Collection: Artist
Image of Siobhan Davies
We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.
- Siobhan Davies
Collection: Artist
Image of Stephen Shore
I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people, a number of artists, who were taking it very seriously and doing very imaginative work with Instagram as the medium.
- Stephen Shore
Collection: Artist
Image of Rodney Crowell
It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.
- Rodney Crowell
Collection: Artist
Image of Pliny the Younger
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
- Pliny the Younger
Collection: Artist
Image of James Lee Burke
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
- James Lee Burke
Collection: Artist
Image of Warren G
We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up a lot of doors for other artists to feel free to do that type of stuff.
- Warren G
Collection: Artist
Image of Kate Chopin
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
- Kate Chopin
Collection: Artist
Image of C. V. Wedgwood
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
- C. V. Wedgwood
Collection: Artist
Image of Garry Winogrand
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
- Garry Winogrand
Collection: Artist
Image of Dick Clark
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
- Dick Clark
Collection: Artist
Image of El Greco
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
- El Greco
Collection: Artist