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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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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?Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.Collection: Artist
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.Collection: Artist
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.Collection: Artist
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.Collection: Artist
I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.Collection: Artist
I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.Collection: Artist
We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.Collection: Artist
There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give backCollection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defiesCollection: Artist
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Artist
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.Collection: Artist