239 quotes found
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”
“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”
“Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations”
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures ar...”
“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaningWe will all make it through, despite politics a...”
“Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.”
“When I discovered music when I discovered the craft of shaping a song my being fell into place.”
“Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.”
“It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.”
“We are defined as artists by the pull of our hearts, not the creation of our hands.”
“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails”
“They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you - and judge you - and everything you stand for. Their words will cut through your heart-str...”
“Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helpin...”
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Centur...”
“The mind is like an empty canvas and we are all artists, who spend our entire lives creating our own unique masterpieces.”
“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.”
“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they...”
“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. ”
