239 quotes found
“Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely or...”
“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.”
“It was the artists who finally gave their times and places significance. Paul felt the presence of their ghosts out in the world, just as felt them in his office and in his head. The air was full o...”
“There is no such thing as an independent artist. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.”
“You never needed wings to fly,You only needed love.”
“Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ...”
“We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time.”
“Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn't the real problem,...”
“Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.”
“Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely,...”
“There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between l...”
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”
“The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.”
“People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.”
“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
“... consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal som...”
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not artand only life is rich enough to simulate originality.”
“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I mean he's an ...”
