Best artist & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.”

People Feels Helping Hands Artist Given Duty Helping Hand

Author:Hugo Pratt

“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”

People Kind Persons Hands Used Artist Choices Direct Impression Used To Be Mainstream Cds

Author:Chance the Rapper

“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Hands Seems Eye Together Artist Stuff Art Is Gestures Totality

Author:Frank Stella

“It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.”

Doe Hands Artist Bits Situation Every Second

Author:Keith Urban

“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.”

World Mind Hands Kids Young Artist Teacher College Training Theater Incredibles Brilliant Bunch Around The World Young Minds

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.”

Ifs Should Hands Artist Add Video Hand In Hand

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Real Hands Artist Lost Records Inspired Hip Hop Hips Hops Just Being Great Art Great Artist

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.”

Hands Artist Dangerous Gun Great Art Loaded Great Artist Loaded Gun

Author:Peter M. Brant

“An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.”

Hands Eye Artist Tools Measuring

Book:The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”

Doe Hands Eye Artist Records Painting Gestures Linear Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Graphs

Author:Roger Fry

“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Hands Bigs Artist Next Ability Greatness Tests Pockets Coming Out Very Deep Soulless

Author:Lady Gaga

“While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.”

Believe Long Art Hands Artist Choices Devil Remains Commerce Marketplace Spoons E Commerce Henchmen

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.”

Mind Art Real Hands Artist Universe Sound Music Music Is Guides Rhythm Abstract

Author:Robert Genn

“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.”

Real Hands Artist Air Painting Becoming Studios Architecture Painter Lakes Rome Medieval Renaissance Tubes Fooled

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.”

Doe Hands Artist

Author:Samuel Pepys

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.”

Hands Artist Creative Garbage Creative Art Creative Artists Positive Image

Author:Don Watson

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].”

Ifs Want Hands Film Artist Sorry Scripts Finished Singers

Author:Gloria Estefan

“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”

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Author:Edward Albee

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.”

Thinking Should Hands Jobs Artist Fashion Imagery Hand In Hand Intertwined Fashion And Music

Author:Lady Gaga

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst

“I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.”

Should Hands Artist Needed Should Have Humble Labour Makers Clay Assisting

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.”

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.”

World Soul Hands Form Artist Fairs Breathe Bless

Book:KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

Source: KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'”

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Author:John Romita, Sr.

“Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.”

People Mind Mean Stills States Hands Artist Careers Majors Aspect Wake Up Independent Mindset Labels Being Afraid

Author:Yo Gotti

“Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.”

I Can Ideas Hands Together Used Artist Steps Wonderful Movement Absolutes Extraordinary All Time Awe Mastery Precise Fluid Every Step True Artists

Author:Martin Scorsese

“It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.”

Thinking Needs Mean Art Hands Artist Order Courses Reading Easy Too Much Practicals Resistance Works Of Art Leisure Deprivation Poignant

Book:The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

Source: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”

Way Mind I Can Hands Remember Form Artist Fashion Determined Mixtures Marble My Future Foresight Sculptors

Author:Freya Stark

“In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.”

Hands Artist Suffering Middle Buddhism My Friends Screens Runners Cartoon Erase Erasers Road Runner

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

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