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I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.
By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?
No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.
The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.
I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.
Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.
I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.
The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
I feel there is a strong bond between artists and children and all other sacred fools.
I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.