Quotes of: Female-artists Keyword

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

41 Stories

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One

If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.

The Artist

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

The Interestings

Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.

The Indigo Notebook

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Killosophy

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Killosophy

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

The Savage Detectives

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

The Savage Garden

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

Mosquito