Quotes about Artists, page 3

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Quote by James Joyce about artists

An artist is his own fault.

Quote by John O'Hara about artists

Some artists would rather go in there and let some other things dictate the kind of record they do, but I've got such a great team.

Quote by Brad Paisley about artists

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Quote by Brad Paisley about artists

Those first couple of years as an artist, you really learn a lot about who you are by which songs work and which songs don't.

Quote by Brad Paisley about artists

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about artists

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Quote by Paracelsus about artists

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Quote by Alan Parsons about artists

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about artists

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about artists

I met Robert Crumb in 1962, he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about artists

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about artists

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about artists

So, if you're an artist who is in it just for the money, I would be against you.

Quote by Sean Penn about artists

Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Quote by Pablo Picasso about artists

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Quote by Emile Zola about artists

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about artists

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.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about artists

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about artists

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Quote by William Faulkner about artists