“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.” ThinkingWorldPastArtistBitsBrainInformationComputer Author:Gerald Scarfe
“People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.” PeopleNeedsUsePastArtistNamesPerspectiveMusicianRelatedGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Sondre Lerche
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.” TryingI CanPastArtistCertainIntentionSpendingBoredomGlancesPlague Author:Philip Guston
“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.” AgePastFormArtistGenuineMidstGreat ArtGreat ArtistTimeliness Author:Franz Marc
“To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.” ArtPastArtistCenturyPaintingMastersYesterdayHistorianGiotto Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.” WantPersonsTodayPastArtistMistakeFocusHappenedBecomingGet BetterBetter PersonSame MistakesMaking The Same MistakesFocus On The FutureBecoming A Better Person Author:Jay Park
“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.” ArtPastArtistEnergyStrengthPossibilityPositionMastersCommunicateColossal Author:Jorg Immendorff
“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.” YearsHeartRealPastArtistTraveledReal Things Author:Bill Gaither
“Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.” PastArtistCherishPhoenix Author:Janet Fitch