239 quotes found
“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or not, that one observe the vast as well as the infinitesima...”
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”
“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they ...”
“Good artists are always crazy, one way or another.”
“...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.”
“Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.”
“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned ...”
“Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.”
“The most visible creators are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible ~ without brush, hammer, clay, or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt. Their medium...”
“A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment--especially in fantasy and children's books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film Mirrormask, moving...”
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about shit. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.”
“Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.”
“Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.”
“Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.”
“Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he's and artist, and there's something about artists that seems to act on the other sex like catnip on cats.”
“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; its an almost losing battle against it.”
“Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas”
“It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.”
“Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing”
“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like thissuch a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”
