Artist Emerald Quotes

I am the Constellation of my own ~ Artist Emerald

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life ... but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. ~ Gilberto Gil

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. ~ W. H. Auden

Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels. ~ Bram Van Velde

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

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist." ~ Kenny Smith

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion. ~ Jaime King

I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock. ~ Aaron Brookner

We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize. ~ Gretel Ehrlich

Never I've felt more validated in my life that through art. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. ~ Jerry Saltz

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. ~ Willem De Kooning

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy. ~ Johnny Winter

Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors ... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids ... mixed together with powdered stones to give color ... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal. ~ James Elkins

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet. ~ Lisa Yuskavage

White Christian America had its golden age in the 1950s, after the hardships and victories of World War Ii and before the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. June Cleaver was its mother, Andy Griffith was its sheriff, Norman Rockwell was its artist. and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale were its ministers. ~ Robert P. Jones

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. ~ Richard Diebenkorn

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist. ~ Margaret Keane

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director. ~ Laurieann Gibson

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist. ~ Diane Wood Middlebrook

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ~ Henry Miller

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for. ~ Daryl Hall

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Pop art is a way of liking things. ~ Andy Warhol

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow. ~ Dianna Agron

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. ~ Frida Kahlo

...to go to a dance with a guy who has all the personality of a serial killer mixed with a sponge. ~ J.A. Beard

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books ... so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes. ~ Annie Dillard

Grant paused in the act of turning the thing over, to consider the face a moment longer. A judge? A soldier? A prince? Someone used to great responsibility, and responsible in his authority. Someone too-conscientious. A worrier; perhaps a perfectionist. A man at ease in a large design, but anxious over details. A candidate for gastric ulcer. Someone, too, who had suffered ill-health as a child. He had that incommunicable, that indescribable look that childhood suffering leaves behind it; less positive than the look on a cripple's face, but as inescapable. This the artist had both understood and translated into terms of paint. The slight fullness of the lower eyelid, like a child that has slept too heavily; the texture of the skin; the old-man look in a young face.
He turned the portrait over to look for a caption.
On the back was printed: Richard the Third. From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Artist Unknown. ~ Josephine Tey

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

The quality of Venice that accomplishes what religion so often cannot is that Venice has made peace with the waters. It is not merely pleasant that the sea flows through, grasping the city like tendrils of vine, and, depending upon the light, making alleys and avenues of emerald and sapphire, Citi s a brave acceptance of dissolution and an unflinching settlement with death. Though in Venice you may sit in courtyards of stone, and your heels may click up marble stairs, you cannot move without riding upon or crossing the waters that someday will carry you in dissolution to the sea. ~ Mark Helprin