Sabzi Artist Quotes

Creative people have it hard. There is always something trapped in their noggins yearning to escape like a caged animal, both too free and wild to contain. Little does the world know it will often scrape the inner walls of the mind until it gets what it wants. ~ H.S. Crow

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. ~ Sarah Ruhl

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. ~ Tim Burton

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ~ Irving Stone

No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint. ~ Robert Genn

I sometimes look at the careers of other ... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite. ~ Mike Royer

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. ~ Robert Wilson

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes ~ Alexej Von Jawlensky

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall. ~ Paul Strand

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing ~ Glenn Gould

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist. ~ JC Chasez

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew. ~ Tobin Bell

I'm making a statement about conformity."
For or against?"
That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher."

Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn ~ Alisa Craig

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. ~ Peter Beard

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. ~ Susan Sontag

With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire. ~ Jonathan Culver

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime. ~ Faith Hill

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. ~ Jack Prelutsky

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. ~ Paul Klee

I am not an artist. My thread pictures look like rainbow vomit. I'm not useful. ~ K.F. Breene

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word ... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age. ~ Pablo Picasso

I was a martial artist. So, for me to be able to do all of the fights is a blast. It's so fun. It's like dancing, but more bad-ass. I really enjoy doing it. ~ Caity Lotz

I do believe everyone on this earth is an artist - some people more than others. But I do believe we are all artists in a certain way. We all have unique abilities. There are people who are meant to make it their life, and that is a different kind of person who would choose to be on that path. ~ Melora Hardin

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers. ~ James Frey

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. ~ Pablo Picasso

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. ~ Sonia Sanchez

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity ... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. ~ Ai Weiwei

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own. ~ Luther E. Vann

My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art, whether it's poetry, fiction or painting, you are telling the reader or listener or viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. And so, what the artist does, or tries to do, is simply to validate the human experience and to tell people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know. ~ Walker Percy

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. ~ Kara Walker

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing ... And never take advice, including this. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain. ~ Cory Arcangel

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. ~ Roberto Burle Marx

And he did what women around the world loved him for, over and above his money: he fucked like an artist; with natural talent, an almost indecent technical competence and the well-honed gift of accurately gauging female arousal. ~ C.C. Gibbs

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced ~ Agatha Christie

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not. ~ Arthur Koestler

People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist ... how do we fix Africa?' ~ Bo Burnham

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become. ~ John O'Donohue

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. ~ Mark Denman

The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful. ~ M.I.A.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~ William Faulkner

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person. ~ Rufus Wainwright

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist. ~ Aasif Mandvi

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. ~ Don Bluth