Artists Quotes

“I'm more interested in the work of artists than in the artists themselves.”
― David Bowie

“... someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn't an artist. They're an asshole.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“The Germans and Carlyle have perverted both thought and phraseology when they made the Artist the term for expressing the highest order of moral and intellectual greatness. The older idea is the truer- that Art, in relation to Truth, is but a language. Philosophy is the proper name for that exercise of the intellect which enucleates the truth to be expressed. The Artist is not the Seer; not he who can detect truth, but he who can clothe a given truth in the most expressive and impressive symbols.”
― John Stuart Mill, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

“All artists, if they are to survive, are forced at last, to vomit the anguish up”
― James Baldwin

“Time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because vision weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.’ He leans close, twists a lock of hair around one finger. ‘Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end,’ he says, ‘everyone wants to be remembered.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You and I were destined to meet and become friends for life, Annu.”
― Avijeet Das

“Students of painting should spend a lot of time in front of real paintings for the same reason that students of writing should read a lot of good books!”
― Kendall Buster and Paula Crawford

“We believe in a light beyond the clouds no matter how dark they look. We hope you enjoy another journey with our new book.”
― Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

“Art is a part of the artist’s soul willed into independent existence. That’s why we can take things as different as a drawing, or a dance, or a poem, or a melody and call them all art.”
― Ray N. Kuili, The Recluse of Santa Fe

“s Zondags liepen wij uren en uren ver over wegen, waar zij nooit kwamen, en op kantoor dachten wij aan de slootjes en de weilanden, die wij gezien hadden en terwijl de heeren ons bevalen dingen te doen waarvan wij 't nut niet begrepen, dachten wij er aan, hoe Zondagavond de zon was ondergegaan achter Abcoû. En hoe wij woordeloos 't heelal doordacht hadden, hoe God ons hoofd, ons hart en ons ruggemerg gevuld had en hoe mal zij zouden kijken, als wij hun dat zouden zeggen.”
― Nescio, De Uitvreter, Titaantjes, Dichtertje, Mene Tekel

“...invent your own future and profit from it...part of the reason artists can predict societal changes, spot unseen trends, and connect invisible dots is because they can imagine new possibilities, different worlds, and alternative futures.”
― Maria Brito, How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold

“Each pencil hides inside it thousands of drawings. The artist's job is to discover and make these views of new worlds visible.”
― Alejandro Mos Riera

“Some thoughts on Compromise
Check your ego at the door
Make some preset rules for the dreaded impasse
Passion is King
Pay attention to the Size of Your Engine
Know When to say When

Story. Acting. 157

—Indiewood, part Hollywood part Independent. term on p. 202

The affair movie is the movie you end up thinking about when you are supposed to the writing the one to which you are assigned. 205

We had gambled on ourselves and we won. 231

A screenwriter … once described the development process as a series of small steps away from home. 240”
― Mark Duplass, Like Brothers

“You have to have faith in your own intuitive process. That is really all you can do. I would say this to all people who are trying to become musicians or writers or artists of any kind: learn as much as you can about your craft, of course, but ultimately trust your own instinctive impulses.

Have faith in yourself, so you can stand beside whatever it is you have done and fight for it, because if you can invest it with that faith, then it has its own truth, its own honesty, its own resilient vulnerability, and hence its own value.”
― Nick Cave

“The artists that impress me most have a purpose: to clear the fog - in their minds and ours. They revealed something unique to me that had been shrouded in mist.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Art is not an escape into fantasy; it's an escape into reality.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“The key to effective communication is targeting the heart rather than the head. In the grand symphony of ideas, the harmonious chord struck in the heart echoes the loudest, reaching over the barriers of scepticism and intellectual fortresses.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“Politicians, religious leaders, and authorities tell you to trust them because they're the experts with the answers. They make a big show of being trustworthy. That's why I don't trust them. I only trust someone who tells me not to trust them.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“When you're small, you have little to lose. There's no pressure. You can take huge risks, like running radical and original ad campaigns. You can make edgy and ground-breaking films, exhibitions, or books. You don't have to consider your reputation, colossal studio, staff, or agents. If you're unknown, make the most of your freedom.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“How do you fix a broken town? You let the artists have a go. Not because they will take it back to its original state, but because they will take all the broken pieces and create a beautiful mosaic.”
― Nate Hamon

“A good artist does not need to speak, because his work speaks for him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As a class poets are not without cultural status. Like priests in a town of agnostics, they still command a certain residual prestige. But as individual artists they are almost invisible.”
― Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was thirty-nine. Today these sluggards would be unemployable.”
― Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Poetry = infinite courage multiplied by creativity minus every muse’s virginity + forgiving self as enemy x passion to the power of infinity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“artists and their art are liberated souls
forever sprinting and searching in the world.”
― Haki R. Madhubuti

“The good artist is he who can be understood; it is the bad artist who is always "misunderstood.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens

“Another female star of the pre-modern age was “Mulla Fatemeh” Naghai, a performer of music and poetry for the Zand dynasty court in Shiraz during the 1700s. This woman gave public concerts outside the Vakil bazaar, playing the lute, harp, tambourine, and reed pipe, and she could recite over 20,000 verses of classical or contemporary poetry from memory. She was an outspoken critic of clerical hypocrisy and of bigotry in general, demanding justice for the powerless both in the court and on stage.”
― Zhinia Noorian, Mother Persia: Women in Iran's History

“رنگ ها نیز به حد شگفت آوری خطرناک بودند چون در ساخت آنها از سرب، آرسنیک و نوعی جیوه استفاده می شد. رنگ کاران ساختمان عموما دچار یک بیماری ناشناخته به نام قولنج نقاشان بودند که ناشی از مسمومیت سرب بود و عوارضی مانند رعشه، سرفه های شدید، خستگی و کوفتگی، افسردگی شدید، بی اشتهایی، توهم، و نابینایی داشت. یکی از علائم مسمویت از سرب این است که باعث بزرگ شدن بیش از حد شبکیه چشم قربانیان و دیدن هاله ای به وسیله ی آنان در اطراف اشیا می شود، عارضه ای که وینسنت وان گوگ از آن در نقاشی های خود استفاده کرده است. احتمالا خود اون از مسمویت سرب رنج می برد. اغلب هنرمندان مسموم می شدند. یکی از کسانی که دچار مسمویت سرب شده بود جیمز مک نیل ویستلر بود که از مقدار زیادی سرب برای خلق یک تابلوی نقاشی به اندازه ی واقعی به نام دختر سفید استفاده کرد.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“There is no art in celebrity.”
― Jack Freestone

“Empires have always underestimated artists. And it works in our favor. It makes us powerful. No one expects us to change the world, and so we do.”
― J.R. Dawson