No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself.
- James Joyce
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
- James Joyce
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
- James Joyce
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
- Josef Albers
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
- Steve Albini
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
- Ernest Hemingway
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- Ernest Hemingway
Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first thought, he may by Philosophy compose something prettier than he saw and mightier than he felt, it is all over with him. Every such attempt at composition will be utterly abortive, and end in something that is neither true nor fanciful; something geographically useless, and intellectually absurd.
- John Ruskin
I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
- Woody Allen
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
- Woody Allen
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
- Herb Alpert
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
- Thomas Aquinas
So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
- Margaret Atwood
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
- David Herbert Lawrence
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Francis Bacon
Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
- James Baldwin
One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
- James Baldwin
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.
- James Baldwin
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
- James Baldwin
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process
- James Baldwin
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
- James Baldwin
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
- Oscar Wilde
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
- Oscar Wilde
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
- Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- Oscar Wilde
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
- Oscar Wilde
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
- Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
- Oscar Wilde
...I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m
- Oscar Wilde
What the artist is
always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are
one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in
which form reveals.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
- Gary Barlow
Is despair wrong? Isn't it the natural condition of life after a certain age? ... After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.
- Julian Barnes
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
- Ethel Barrymore
Usually the amateur is defines as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot or will not achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.
- Roland Barthes
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
- Georg Baselitz
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
- Leonard Baskin
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
- Charles Baudelaire
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion... The man himself was an intense passion, supported by a formidable will power.
He used to say constantly:
'Since I consider the impression transmitted to the artist by nature as the most important thing to translate, is it not necessary that he be armed in advance with all the speediest means of translation?'
- Charles Baudelaire
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
- Christian Bauman
And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point.
- Michael Bay
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
- Emmanuelle Beart
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
- Beck
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
- Samuel Beckett
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.
- Albert Camus
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
- Albert Camus
Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.
- Albert Camus
I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.
- Adrian Belew
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
- Julien Benda
The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself.
- Arnold Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
- Arnold Bennett
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.
- John Berger
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
- John Berryman
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
- Otis Blackwell
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
- Karen Blixen
It is terrible and unbearable to an artist,' he said, 'to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best.' He said: 'Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!
- Isak Dinesen
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
- Don Bluth
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
- Don Bluth
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
- Don Bluth
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist..
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
- Dorothea Brande
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
- Madeleine L Engle
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
- Marshall Mcluhan
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F Kennedy
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.
- Steven Brust
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
- Michael Buble
The artist in me cries out for design.
- Robert Frost
Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies. The other half is copied from the man I admire most in all the worlds and time, so my interest is doubly riveted. The artistic combination of the two, shall we say, arrests my attention.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
- Charles Bukowski
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
- Robert Olen Butler
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
- A S Byatt
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
- Maria Callas
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
- Joseph Campbell
The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
- Truman Capote
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it.... for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.
- Truman Capote
...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.
- Orson Scott Card
It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.
- Suzanne Collins
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
- Emily Carr
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
- Ana Castillo
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- Willa Cather
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Paul Cezanne
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
- Paul Cezanne
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
- Marc Chagall
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
- Anton Chekhov
You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist.
- Anton Chekhov
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery...You are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
- Anton Chekhov
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
- Bertrand Russell
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
- Kate Chopin
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
- Kate Chopin
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
- Kate Chopin
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
- Agatha Christie
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
- Jimmy Cliff
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
- Montgomery Clift
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
- Chuck Close
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
- Chuck Close
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
- Joe Cocker
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.
- J M Coetzee
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
- Colette
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn... they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
- Robert A Heinlein
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Robert A Heinlein
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Cyril Connolly
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
- Cyril Connolly
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
- Cyril Connolly
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
- Jackie Cooper
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
- Gustave Courbet
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
- Gustave Courbet
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
- Gustave Courbet
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
- Harry Crews
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
- Sheryl Crow
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.
- Aleister Crowley
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
- Tom Cruise
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- Virginia Woolf
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
- Beatrice Dalle
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
- Roger Daltrey
The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.
- Iimani David
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
- Taylor Dayne
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
- Mos Def
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
- Eugene Delacroix
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
- Samuel R Delany
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
- Robert Delaunay
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
- Philip K Dick
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
- Franz Kafka
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
- Snoop Dogg
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)
- Milan Kundera
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.
- Marcel Duchamp
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
- Marcel Duchamp
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.
- Marcel Duchamp
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- Ursula K Le Guin
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectutal, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to condemn everything else.
- Ursula K Le Guin
We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
- Jermaine Dupri
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
- Albrecht Durer
The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that he has forgotten the use he intended to put it to.
- Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
- Henry Miller
...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
- Henry Miller
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.
- Henry Miller
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Henry Miller
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
- Henry Miller
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
- Maria Sharapova
I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.
- John Dyer
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
- Justin Townes Earle
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
- Max Eastman
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
- Umberto Eco
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
- Kenneth Edmonds
If we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's & O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience", & if I had not only the information but the artistry to shape that information using the computer inside my brain, then, technically speaking, was I not having all the same experiences those other people were having?
- Jennifer Egan
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
- Olafur Eliasson
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
- George Eliot
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
- David Elliott
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
- Garth Ennis
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
- Arthur Erickson
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
- Arthur Erickson
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
- Max Ernst
Unbelievable, I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone's breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.
- Kelley Eskridge
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.
- Federico Fellini
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
- Federico Fellini
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
- Adam Ferguson
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
- Craig Ferguson
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
- Richard P Feynman
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
- Gustave Flaubert
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
- Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- Gustave Flaubert
If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.
- Gustave Flaubert
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
- Carlisle Floyd
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
- Carlisle Floyd
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
- Lukas Foss
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
- Lukas Foss
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
- Lukas Foss
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
- Viktor E Frankl
I saw it all of a sudden. That whether I liked it or not, the survivor and the artist was me, not her. We're all conditioned to think of our children as more important than us, you know, and to live vicariously through them. All of a sudden I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but I'm alive now. And I can live deliberately. I've paid the price, I've done the work, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.
- Jonathan Franzen
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
- Lucian Freud
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)
- Rollo May
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
- Peter Gabriel
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
- Peter Gabriel
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
- Hans Georg Gadamer
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
- Lady Gaga
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- Lady Gaga
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
- Lady Gaga
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Leo Tolstoy
The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.
- Leo Tolstoy
Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
- Kahlil Gibran
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
- Kahlil Gibran
- James Joyce
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
- James Joyce
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
- James Joyce
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
- Josef Albers
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
- Steve Albini
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
- Ernest Hemingway
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- Ernest Hemingway
Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first thought, he may by Philosophy compose something prettier than he saw and mightier than he felt, it is all over with him. Every such attempt at composition will be utterly abortive, and end in something that is neither true nor fanciful; something geographically useless, and intellectually absurd.
- John Ruskin
I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
- Woody Allen
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
- Woody Allen
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
- Herb Alpert
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
- Thomas Aquinas
So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
- Margaret Atwood
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
- David Herbert Lawrence
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Francis Bacon
Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
- James Baldwin
One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
- James Baldwin
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.
- James Baldwin
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
- James Baldwin
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process
- James Baldwin
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
- James Baldwin
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
- Oscar Wilde
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
- Oscar Wilde
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
- Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- Oscar Wilde
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
- Oscar Wilde
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
- Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
- Oscar Wilde
...I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m
- Oscar Wilde
What the artist is
always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are
one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in
which form reveals.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
- Gary Barlow
Is despair wrong? Isn't it the natural condition of life after a certain age? ... After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.
- Julian Barnes
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
- Ethel Barrymore
Usually the amateur is defines as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot or will not achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.
- Roland Barthes
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
- Georg Baselitz
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
- Leonard Baskin
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
- Charles Baudelaire
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion... The man himself was an intense passion, supported by a formidable will power.
He used to say constantly:
'Since I consider the impression transmitted to the artist by nature as the most important thing to translate, is it not necessary that he be armed in advance with all the speediest means of translation?'
- Charles Baudelaire
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
- Christian Bauman
And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point.
- Michael Bay
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
- Emmanuelle Beart
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
- Beck
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
- Samuel Beckett
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.
- Albert Camus
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
- Albert Camus
Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.
- Albert Camus
I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.
- Adrian Belew
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
- Julien Benda
The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself.
- Arnold Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
- Arnold Bennett
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.
- John Berger
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
- John Berryman
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
- Otis Blackwell
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
- Karen Blixen
It is terrible and unbearable to an artist,' he said, 'to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best.' He said: 'Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost!
- Isak Dinesen
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
- Don Bluth
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
- Don Bluth
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
- Don Bluth
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist..
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
- Dorothea Brande
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
- Madeleine L Engle
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
- Marshall Mcluhan
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F Kennedy
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.
- Steven Brust
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
- Michael Buble
The artist in me cries out for design.
- Robert Frost
Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies. The other half is copied from the man I admire most in all the worlds and time, so my interest is doubly riveted. The artistic combination of the two, shall we say, arrests my attention.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
- Charles Bukowski
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
- Robert Olen Butler
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
- A S Byatt
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
- Maria Callas
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
- Joseph Campbell
The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
- Truman Capote
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it.... for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.
- Truman Capote
...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.
- Orson Scott Card
It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.
- Suzanne Collins
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
- Emily Carr
I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
- Ana Castillo
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- Willa Cather
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Paul Cezanne
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
- Paul Cezanne
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
- Marc Chagall
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
- Anton Chekhov
You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist.
- Anton Chekhov
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery...You are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
- Anton Chekhov
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
- Bertrand Russell
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
- Kate Chopin
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
- Kate Chopin
And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.
- Kate Chopin
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
- Agatha Christie
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
- Jimmy Cliff
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
- Montgomery Clift
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
- Chuck Close
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
- Chuck Close
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
- Joe Cocker
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.
- J M Coetzee
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
- Colette
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn... they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
- Robert A Heinlein
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
- Robert A Heinlein
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Cyril Connolly
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
- Cyril Connolly
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
- Cyril Connolly
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
- Jackie Cooper
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
- Gustave Courbet
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
- Gustave Courbet
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
- Gustave Courbet
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
- Harry Crews
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
- Sheryl Crow
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.
- Aleister Crowley
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
- Tom Cruise
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- Virginia Woolf
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
- Beatrice Dalle
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
- Roger Daltrey
The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.
- Iimani David
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
- Taylor Dayne
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
- Mos Def
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
- Eugene Delacroix
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
- Samuel R Delany
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
- Robert Delaunay
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
- Philip K Dick
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
- Franz Kafka
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
- Snoop Dogg
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)
- Milan Kundera
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.
- Marcel Duchamp
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
- Marcel Duchamp
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.
- Marcel Duchamp
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- Ursula K Le Guin
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectutal, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to condemn everything else.
- Ursula K Le Guin
We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
- Jermaine Dupri
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
- Albrecht Durer
The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that he has forgotten the use he intended to put it to.
- Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
- Henry Miller
...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
- Henry Miller
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.
- Henry Miller
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Henry Miller
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
- Henry Miller
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
- Maria Sharapova
I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.
- John Dyer
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
- Justin Townes Earle
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
- Max Eastman
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
- Umberto Eco
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
- Kenneth Edmonds
If we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's & O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience", & if I had not only the information but the artistry to shape that information using the computer inside my brain, then, technically speaking, was I not having all the same experiences those other people were having?
- Jennifer Egan
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
- Olafur Eliasson
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
- George Eliot
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
- David Elliott
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
- Garth Ennis
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
- Arthur Erickson
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
- Arthur Erickson
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
- Max Ernst
Unbelievable, I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone's breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.
- Kelley Eskridge
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.
- Federico Fellini
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
- Federico Fellini
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
- Adam Ferguson
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
- Craig Ferguson
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
- Richard P Feynman
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
- Gustave Flaubert
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
- Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- Gustave Flaubert
If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.
- Gustave Flaubert
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
- Carlisle Floyd
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
- Carlisle Floyd
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
- Lukas Foss
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
- Lukas Foss
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
- Lukas Foss
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
- Viktor E Frankl
I saw it all of a sudden. That whether I liked it or not, the survivor and the artist was me, not her. We're all conditioned to think of our children as more important than us, you know, and to live vicariously through them. All of a sudden I was sick of that kind of thinking. I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but I'm alive now. And I can live deliberately. I've paid the price, I've done the work, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.
- Jonathan Franzen
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
- Lucian Freud
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)
- Rollo May
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
- Peter Gabriel
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
- Peter Gabriel
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
- Hans Georg Gadamer
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
- Lady Gaga
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- Lady Gaga
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
- Lady Gaga
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Leo Tolstoy
The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.
- Leo Tolstoy
Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
- Kahlil Gibran
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
- Kahlil Gibran
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