Perspective Artist Quotes

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective. ~ Denis Diderot

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective. ~ Masi Oka

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists. ~ Duncan Sheik

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us - flesh and bone - only to be spewed out again in our own works. ~ Siri Hustvedt

If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first. ~ Henry Moore

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ~ Rene Magritte

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. ~ Marty Rubin

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper. ~ Bruce Pavitt

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins ~ Gene Youngblood

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. ~ Beck

There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers. ~ David Galenson

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. ~ Georges Braque

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas. ~ Henri Matisse

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done. ~ Brice Marden

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible. ~ Julian Barnes

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. ~ Ronald Reagan

One of my dad's colleagues said, "She wants to paint with her shit. Maybe we should give her paints." And it worked.' Mary Barnes eventually became a celebrated and much-exhibited artist. Her paintings were greatly admired throughout the 1960s and 1970s for illustrating the mad, colourful, painful, exuberant, complicated inner life of a schizophrenic. ~ Jon Ronson

Like one of his heroes, Tom Waits, whenever Yorke feels like his songwriting is getting too comfortable or stale, he'll pick up an instrument he doesn't know how to play and try to write with it. This is yet another trait of amateurs - they'll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world. "I'm an artist, man," said John Lennon. "Give me a tuba, and I'll get you something out of it. ~ Austin Kleon

A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering. ~ Neal Bascomb

The great Raphael Perez he give life a meaning ! ... He is master, his smile is brush and his story is canvas ... ~ Imran Shaikh

I am an Entertainer, I don't feel anything wrong in any of demanding scene as per the script, I cook to serve for people, Not to eat ourselves! ~ Mikki Koomar

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce
render emotional
his audience, each time. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think. ~ Douglas Booth

artist, musician, ~ John Ortberg

As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived. ~ Isaac Asimov

I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit. ~ Chris Blackwell

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me ... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment. ~ Danielle De Niese

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be. ~ Paola Antonelli

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout. ~ Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of attention, among which it rests precisely with the artist himself to arouse the highest. For those who yawn with boredom after ten lines of a mediocre article have journeyed year after year to Bayreuth to listen to the Ring. ~ Marcel Proust

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong ... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes ... ~ Ashley Bickerton

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression. ~ Nick Carter

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing. ~ Josh Dun

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. ~ Meg Ryan

Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself. ~ Josh McDowell

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour. ~ Skylar Laine

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound. ~ Mac Miller

For a great artist, life is about searching for something that gives you an insatiable craving to go further and beyond. ~ Talismanist Giebra

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. ~ George Santayana