All Quotes

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
‐‐ George Santayana

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
‐‐ Henry Miller

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is his own fault.
‐‐ John O'Hara

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
‐‐ James Whistler

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
‐‐ Andres Serrano

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
‐‐ Patti Smith

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
‐‐ David Lynch

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
‐‐ Patti Smith

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
‐‐ Maria Semple

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
‐‐ Joe Wright

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
‐‐ Paul Valery

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
‐‐ Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
‐‐ James Whistler

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
‐‐ Kim Ki-duk

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
‐‐ Nick Cave

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
‐‐ Bridget Riley

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
‐‐ Carl Maria von Weber

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
‐‐ David Ebershoff

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
‐‐ Norman Reilly Raine

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
‐‐ Auguste Renoir

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
‐‐ Patti Smith

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

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
‐‐ Martin Kippenberger

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
‐‐ George Eliot

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
‐‐ Fred Allen

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
‐‐ Elon Musk

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
‐‐ Michael Aspel

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.
‐‐ Tom Wujec

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw