Quotes of: Creative-artist Keyword

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Kate Chopin

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Richard Price

A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.

Almost a Turkish Soap Opera

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Killosophy

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

The Salinger Contract

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales

In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.

The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

We’re all artists. It’s just most people keep their inner artist locked behind their rib cage.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

Rene Auberjonois

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Russell Banks

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

Ron Brackin

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Sol LeWitt

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Kuo Pao Kun

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

Madeleine L'Engle

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana