Quotes of: Artiste Keyword

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Andy Warhol

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Stevie Nicks

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

Wes Borland

All any artist can do is please themselves.

William Shatner

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.

William Zinsser

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Christo

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

George Michael

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Jock Sturges

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

Phylicia Rashad

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

Terry Gross

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

Ted Naifeh

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

Annie Lennox

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

David Whyte