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To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus (Artist Quotes)
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things (Artist Quotes)
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the Earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web (Artist Quotes)
God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas (Artist Quotes)
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true (Artist Quotes)
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side (Artist Quotes)
I really thought that the make - up artist for Cinderella Man should have won. I mean, it's so hard to make Russell Crowe look like he got in a fight (Artist Quotes)
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image (Artist Quotes)
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others (Artist Quotes)
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman (Artist Quotes)
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul (Artist Quotes)
But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch! (Artist Quotes)
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others (Artist Quotes)
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week (Artist Quotes)
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above (Artist Quotes)
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create (Artist Quotes)
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists (Artist Quotes)
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained (Artist Quotes)
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist (Artist Quotes)
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage (Artist Quotes)
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist (Artist Quotes)
Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place (Artist Quotes)
I find as an artist if I’m not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed (Artist Quotes)
The simplest means are those which best enable an artist to express himself. His means of expression must derive almost all of neccessity from his temperament (Artist Quotes)
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do (Artist Quotes)
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind (Artist Quotes)
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them (Artist Quotes)
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist (Artist Quotes)
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision (Artist Quotes)
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition (Artist Quotes)