Quotes about Artists, page 4

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about artists

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about artists

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Quote by Franz Liszt about artists

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about artists

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.

Quote by Patrick Swayze about artists

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Quote by Marsilio Ficino about artists

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Quote by John Allyn Berryman about artists

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Quote by Auguste Rodin about artists

Great artists have no country.

Quote by Alfred de Musset about artists

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Quote by Gustave Flaubert about artists

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about artists

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about artists

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about artists

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

Quote by Margaret Weis about artists

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

Quote by Anthony Quinn about artists

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Quote by Jean Cocteau about artists

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Quote by Pierre Auguste Renoir about artists

A great artist is never poor.

Quote by Isak Dinesen about artists

A critic that is himself an artist is more than a critic.

Quote by Corneliu Antim about artists

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Quote by Charles Dudley Warner about artists