Quotes of: Artiste Keyword

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Sean Scully

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

After the Gazebo

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. Th...

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

Thom Yorke

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

William S. Burroughs

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

Harvest

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

I Live Here

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Killosophy

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Ragnarok

And in uttering that Excellently executed truth You become an artist too

The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

My Life in France

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Mao II

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Nobody Knows My Name

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

The Setting Sun