Home / Topics / Artist Quotes

Artist Quotes

Browse 12055 quotes about Artist.

Artist Quotes

“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”

People Kind Ideas Real Self Hard Joy Artist Prayer Becoming Communicate Hard Times Righteousness Exclusive Self Righteousness Real Joy Smugness

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.”

Ifs Believe Humans Art Feelings Artist I Believe Communication Benefits Messages Art Is Communicate Works Of Art Human Experience Universality

Author:David Walker

“The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.”

World Way Feelings Artist Levels Communication Communicate

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.”

People Want Believe Ideas Artist I Believe Process Born Communicate Life Experience

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.”

Art Past Artist Energy Strength Possibility Position Masters Communicate Colossal

Author:Jorg Immendorff

“Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.”

Film Artist Support Design Discipline Demand Communicate Composer Integrating Subordinates Jerry

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”

Knows Needs Kind Artist Courses Greater Our Lives Skills Losing Communicate Studios Enormous Symbols

Author:John Hench

“I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.”

People Feels Should Desire Artist Voice Loses Communication Mercy Regard Communicate Numb

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.”

Ifs Needs Mind Enough Artist Talent Communicate Desperate Frame Of Mind

Author:Yoko Ono