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Image of William Baziotes
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
- William Baziotes
Collection: Artist
Image of William Baziotes
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
- William Baziotes
Collection: Artist
Image of Anagarika Govinda
The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.
- Anagarika Govinda
Collection: Artist
Image of Hokusai
If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.
- Hokusai
Collection: Artist
Image of George V
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
- George V
Collection: Artist
Image of Andrew Schneider
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
- Andrew Schneider
Collection: Artist
Image of Lawren Harris
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.
- Lawren Harris
Collection: Artist
Image of Gustav Holst
Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.
- Gustav Holst
Collection: Artist
Image of Joel Kinnaman
As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of options its very hard to define yourself.
- Joel Kinnaman
Collection: Artist
Image of Caspar David Friedrich
The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.
- Caspar David Friedrich
Collection: Artist
Image of Caspar David Friedrich
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.
- Caspar David Friedrich
Collection: Artist
Image of Kathleen Raine
The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
- Kathleen Raine
Collection: Artist
Image of Brander Matthews
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.
- Brander Matthews
Collection: Artist
Image of Dale Chihuly
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
- Dale Chihuly
Collection: Artist
Image of Julie Taymor
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.
- Julie Taymor
Collection: Artist
Image of Julie Taymor
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
- Julie Taymor
Collection: Artist
Image of Julie Taymor
In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.
- Julie Taymor
Collection: Artist
Image of Ashanti
Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I would suggest you try and get it hot yourself first. This way you can create your own demand so you'll end up having the option of demanding what you want if you do decide to sign with a label. If you don't and you still get on hot on your own, you then have the ability to reap all of your profits.
- Ashanti
Collection: Artist
Image of Ashanti
As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.
- Ashanti
Collection: Artist
Image of John Cassavetes
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail...Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough.
- John Cassavetes
Collection: Artist
Image of Jennifer Lee
I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"?
- Jennifer Lee
Collection: Artist
Image of Jennifer Lee
I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I don't even notice that I'm the only female on a festival bill. I'm just like "oh I'm playing this festival."I haven't been very deeply involved in this greater outreach because my approach to equality is integration. I'm not into separatism, or an all-female festival. It's good and empowering but it doesn't allow for the bigger picture to get accomplished. We all need to be at the same festival - that's always been my approach.
- Jennifer Lee
Collection: Artist
Image of Peter Doig
How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.
- Peter Doig
Collection: Artist
Image of Peter Doig
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
- Peter Doig
Collection: Artist
Image of Eric Church
We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.
- Eric Church
Collection: Artist
Image of Robert Beverly Hale
An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.
- Robert Beverly Hale
Collection: Artist
Image of Fernando Botero
The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.
- Fernando Botero
Collection: Artist
Image of Leonora Carrington
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
- Leonora Carrington
Collection: Artist
Image of Peter Schjeldahl
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Collection: Artist
Image of Peter Schjeldahl
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Collection: Artist
Image of Peter Schjeldahl
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Collection: Artist
Image of Wilfrid Sheed
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
- Wilfrid Sheed
Collection: Artist
Image of Alex Johnston
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.
- Alex Johnston
Collection: Artist
Image of Sidney Lanier
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
- Sidney Lanier
Collection: Artist
Image of Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
- Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Collection: Artist
Image of Damon Hill
I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas
- Damon Hill
Collection: Artist
Image of Dennis Hopper
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
- Dennis Hopper
Collection: Artist
Image of Paul Reubens
It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
- Paul Reubens
Collection: Artist
Image of Berry Gordy
Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!
- Berry Gordy
Collection: Artist
Image of Berry Gordy
His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.
- Berry Gordy
Collection: Artist
Image of Berry Gordy
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
- Berry Gordy
Collection: Artist
Image of Claire Bloom
I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
- Claire Bloom
Collection: Artist
Image of Red Barber
On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
- Red Barber
Collection: Artist
Image of Rose McGowan
The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.
- Rose McGowan
Collection: Artist
Image of Rose McGowan
I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.
- Rose McGowan
Collection: Artist
Image of Betty Goodwin
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
- Betty Goodwin
Collection: Artist
Image of Robert McKee
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
- Robert McKee
Collection: Artist
Image of Marie-Louise von Franz
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.
- Marie-Louise von Franz
Collection: Artist
Image of Richard Aldington
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
- Richard Aldington
Collection: Artist