Best 8185 quotes in «artist quotes» category

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A great artist is never poor.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I feel that every fighter is an artist and they all take pictures their own way. I'm just one of the very best artists.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.