When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
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...
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.
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.
You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
Great artists have no country.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.
What an artist the world is losing in me
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.