Quotes about Art and the Artist

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist. Votes: 1

Reveal art; conceal the artist. Votes: 0

Everything an artist spits is art. Votes: 0

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art! Votes: 0

The artist is justified by his art. Votes: 0

You are the artist and the art. Votes: 0

His art is the health of the artist. Votes: 0

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART. Votes: 0

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist. Votes: 0

Even a true artist does not always produce art. Votes: 0

Photography is art when it's used by an artist. Votes: 0

An artist must either give up art or develop. Votes: 0

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. Votes: 0

Anything is art if an artist says it is. Votes: 0

The role of art in society differs for every artist. Votes: 0

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. Votes: 0

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul. Votes: 0

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist. Votes: 0

In every work of art, the artist himself is present. Votes: 0

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made. Votes: 0

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art Votes: 0

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind Votes: 0

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself Votes: 0

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist. Votes: 0

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist. Votes: 0

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it... Votes: 0

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. Votes: 0

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. Votes: 0

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object. Votes: 0

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. Votes: 0

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. Votes: 0

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. Votes: 0

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Votes: 0

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? Votes: 0

You are both a work of art and an artist at work. Votes: 0

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist Votes: 0

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. Votes: 0

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. Votes: 0

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness. Votes: 0

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Votes: 0

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. Votes: 0

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possesse Votes: 0

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. Votes: 0

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. Votes: 0

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. Votes: 0

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Votes: 0

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. Votes: 0

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art Votes: 0

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist. Votes: 0

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Votes: 0

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Votes: 0

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. Votes: 0

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful Votes: 0

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. Votes: 0

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. Votes: 0

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape. Votes: 0

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art. Votes: 0

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. Votes: 0

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself. Votes: 0

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera. Votes: 0

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art. Votes: 0

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art Votes: 0

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Votes: 0

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. Votes: 0

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. Votes: 0

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. Votes: 0

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? Votes: 0

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. Votes: 0

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. Votes: 0

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Votes: 0

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Votes: 0

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. Votes: 0

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 0

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty Votes: 0

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. Votes: 0

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering. Votes: 0

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics Votes: 0

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Votes: 0

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. Votes: 0

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time. Votes: 0

I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art. Votes: 0

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. Votes: 0

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. Votes: 0

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art. Votes: 0

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Votes: 0

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art. Votes: 0

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. Votes: 0

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. Votes: 0

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. Votes: 0

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump. Votes: 0

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. Votes: 0

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Votes: 0

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first. Votes: 0

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, Votes: 0

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Votes: 0

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. Votes: 0

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful. Votes: 0

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. Votes: 0

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language. Votes: 0

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist. Votes: 0

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. Votes: 0

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. Votes: 0

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man. Votes: 0

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist. Votes: 0

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. Votes: 0

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. Votes: 0

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. Votes: 0

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself. Votes: 0

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. Votes: 0

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. Votes: 0

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. Votes: 0

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. Votes: 0

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. Votes: 0

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. Votes: 0

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. Votes: 0

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. Votes: 0

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history Votes: 0

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. Votes: 0

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Votes: 0

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something. Votes: 0

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection. Votes: 0

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception. Votes: 0

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Votes: 0

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. Votes: 0

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it. Votes: 0

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Votes: 0

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist. Votes: 0

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. Votes: 0

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. Votes: 0

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show. Votes: 0

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." Votes: 0

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. Votes: 0

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. Votes: 0

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. Votes: 0

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. Votes: 0

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself. Votes: 0

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. Votes: 0

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. Votes: 0

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. Votes: 0

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. Votes: 0

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. Votes: 0

This is a fact. If you don't make art people like, you will never earn a living as an artist. Votes: 0

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection Votes: 0

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Votes: 0

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life. Votes: 0

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art. Votes: 0

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. Votes: 0

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. Votes: 0

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. Votes: 0

art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies. Votes: 0

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. Votes: 0

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. Votes: 0

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. Votes: 0

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. Votes: 0

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material. Votes: 0

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. Votes: 0

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Votes: 0

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text. Votes: 0

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one. Votes: 0

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. Votes: 0

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. Votes: 0

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. Votes: 0

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. Votes: 0

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. Votes: 0

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Votes: 0

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. Votes: 0

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist Votes: 0

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. Votes: 0

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. Votes: 0

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! Votes: 0

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. Votes: 0

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. Votes: 0

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist. Votes: 0

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method. Votes: 0

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Votes: 0

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. Votes: 0

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. Votes: 0

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art, Votes: 0

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. Votes: 0

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. Votes: 0

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. Votes: 0

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. Votes: 0

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. Votes: 0

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished. Votes: 0

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. Votes: 0

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. Votes: 0

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. Votes: 0

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago... Votes: 0

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. Votes: 0

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. Votes: 0

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art. Votes: 0

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. Votes: 0

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? Votes: 0

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. Votes: 0

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art. Votes: 0

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art. Votes: 0

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. Votes: 0

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. Votes: 0

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it. Votes: 0

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? Votes: 0

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. Votes: 0

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts. Votes: 0

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80 Votes: 0

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. Votes: 0

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique. Votes: 0

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. Votes: 0

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' Votes: 0

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. Votes: 0

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title. Votes: 0

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. Votes: 0

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. Votes: 0

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. Votes: 0

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Votes: 0

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Votes: 0

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Votes: 0

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell. Votes: 0

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. Votes: 0

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. Votes: 0

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. Votes: 0

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. Votes: 0

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. Votes: 0

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star. Votes: 0

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Votes: 0

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer. Votes: 0

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis. Votes: 0

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring. Votes: 0

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life. Votes: 0

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. Votes: 0

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things. Votes: 0

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. Votes: 0

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. Votes: 0

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Votes: 0

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art. Votes: 0

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior. Votes: 0

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. Votes: 0

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. Votes: 0

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. Votes: 0

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal. Votes: 0

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life. Votes: 0

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all. Votes: 0

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. Votes: 0

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. Votes: 0

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. Votes: 0

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh." Votes: 0

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless. Votes: 0

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? Votes: 0

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive. Votes: 0

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. Votes: 0

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist. Votes: 0

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it. Votes: 0

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being. Votes: 0

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession. Votes: 0

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. Votes: 0

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. Votes: 0

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. Votes: 0

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. Votes: 0

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. Votes: 0

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Votes: 0

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. Votes: 0

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. Votes: 0

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do. Votes: 0

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. Votes: 0

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Votes: 0

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned. Votes: 0

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Votes: 0

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question. Votes: 0

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . Votes: 0

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. Votes: 0

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. Votes: 0

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding. Votes: 0

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art. Votes: 0

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. Votes: 0

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman. Votes: 0

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen. Votes: 0

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. Votes: 0

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist. Votes: 0

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle. Votes: 0

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. Votes: 0

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. Votes: 0

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. Votes: 0

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade. Votes: 0

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry. Votes: 0

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music. Votes: 0

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively. Votes: 0

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art. Votes: 0

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. Votes: 0

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all. Votes: 0

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. Votes: 0

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art. Votes: 0

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. Votes: 0

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. Votes: 0

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. Votes: 0

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. Votes: 0

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. Votes: 0

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art. Votes: 0

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. Votes: 0

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist. Votes: 0

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives. Votes: 0

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. Votes: 0

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living. Votes: 0

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art. Votes: 0

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry. Votes: 0

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. Votes: 0

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. Votes: 0

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something. Votes: 0

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences. Votes: 0

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him. Votes: 0

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. Votes: 0

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? Votes: 0

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. Votes: 0

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Votes: 0

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art. Votes: 0

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult. Votes: 0

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer. Votes: 0

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question. Votes: 0

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. Votes: 0

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece. Votes: 0

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly. Votes: 0

Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality. Votes: 0

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it” Votes: 0