The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does… — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day,… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at… — Mahmoud Reda Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.” — Jean Lescure Copy Share Image
I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist. — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. — Iimani David Copy Share Image
