Pucciarelli Artist Quotes

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all. ~ Francis Bacon

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. ~ J. E. H. MacDonald

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality. ~ John Van Hamersveld

I sat down and looked at the menu and thought how ironic it was that back then starving artists came to cafes like these because they lived on wine and street pigeons to survive, and now the same cafes are famous because of them and no starving artist can afford to eat there. It's hard to have an existential crisis when a glass of wine costs more than nine dollars. ~ Josefina Lopez

The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958) ~ Jack Kerouac

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and we're not going to allow a con artist to take over the party of [Abraham] Lincoln and [Ronald] Reagan. ~ Marco Rubio

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. ~ Persis Khambatta

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. ~ Emil Nolde

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ~ Beverly Sills

I encourage makers to recognize that when you pull your ego out of the game, your work can become a series of joyful collaborations (between artist and mystery, between artist and peers, between artist and audience). The important thing is to take responsibility for continuing to show up for your side of the bargain. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I am an artist, not a dressmaker. ~ Paul Poiret

All Woolf's work as I know it constitutes a sort of Ovidian metamorphosis where the freedom sought is the freedom to continue becoming, exploring, wandering, going beyond. She is an escape artist. In ~ Rebecca Solnit

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall. ~ Mystikal

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given ... They are a sacred trust. ~ Paul Robeson

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. ~ Robin Gross

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about. ~ Mark Hoppus

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent. ~ Nancy Spero

When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. ~ Thomas Hardy

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art. ~ Robin Black

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process. ~ Todd Rundgren

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist. ~ Neon Hitch

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas ... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture. ~ Mark Rothko

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ~ John Updike

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world ... I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. ~ Pablo Picasso

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. ~ Jonathan Franzen

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. ~ Joseph Campbell

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. ~ James Elkins

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist ~ Leonid Afremov

The world owes the artist nothing. The artist owes the world everything. ~ Craig A. Hart

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. ~ Lucian Freud

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't. ~ Bun E. Carlos

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past. ~ John Logan

But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it. Go to Buenos Aires. Eat some steak. Get a fresh perspective on things. ~ Kapka Kassabova

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. ~ Dick Bruna

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K. ~ George Orwell

All of Dostoevsky's heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility is that the latter thrives on moral programs and the former on metaphysical programs. In Dostoevsky's novels the question is propounded with such intensity that it can only invite extreme solutions. Existence is illusory or it is eternal. If Dostoevsky were satisfied with this inquiry, he would be a philosopher. But he illustrates the consequences that such intellectual pastimes may have in a man's life, and in this regard he is an artist. ~ Albert Camus

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and all point to the North. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. ~ Lady Gaga

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. ~ Odilon Redon

I'm not Jet so I can't write you a song that makes you understand how important you are to me. I'm not Nash so I can't find a building and paint you a mural that makes see that it all starts and ends with you for me. I'm a tattoo artist, I'll probably always be a tattoo artist ( ... ) Here's my heart Shaw. You have it in your hands
and I promise you're the first and last person to ever touch it. You need to
be careful with it because it's far more fragile than I ever thought and if you try and give it back I'm not taking it. ~ Jay Crownover

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty. ~ Oscar Peterson