4,875 quotes found
“Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh”
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent mor...”
“You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist”
“I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.”
“Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in I...”
“For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expre...”
“We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.”
“Artists show us what we blind to.”Baris Gencel”
“I get the sense that some people think that influence dilutes – that the more you are someone else, the less you are yourself, as if you were born with some innate distinct youness that is graduall...”
“If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.”
“Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.”
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”
“At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.”
“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?”
“A good artist should laugh often!”
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”
“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. Neve...”
“An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obliga...”
“Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.”
“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”
