Quotes of: Real-artist Keyword

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Bill Viola

There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.

Arne Glimcher

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

Arne Glimcher

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Anish Kapoor

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Bruce Boxleitner

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

Edi Rama

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Hans Haacke

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Rhys Ifans

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

Richard Phillips

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Tom Brady

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

The Indigo Spell

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

The Sound of All Flesh

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Stranger in a Strange Land

Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity