Quotes From Artists

[PureX]

I really liked the "quotes from scientists" thread, but scientists aren't my 'tribe'. So I decided to do the same for the artists. Here's is a good one to start out:

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

 

[PureX]

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. - Leonard Bernstein

 

[PureX]

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

 

[PureX]

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. - Edward Hopper

 

[PureX]

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian. - Johnny Cash

 

[PureX]

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad. - Jasper Johns

 

[PureX]

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. - Laurie Anderson

 

[PureX]

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. - Lou Reed

 

[PureX]

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing. - Alanis Morissette

 

[PureX]

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. - John Lennon

 

[PureX]

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. - David Hockney

 

[PureX]

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. - Janis Joplin

 

[PureX]

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. - Aretha Franklin

 

[PureX]

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. - Marilyn Monroe

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me. - Lady Gaga

 

[PureX]

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. - Marc Chagall

 

[Revoltingest]

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody.
No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Steve Martin

 

[ChristineM]

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody.
No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Steve Martin

'tiz both funny and a winner

 

[Stanyon]

I've always liked this one from G.G. Allin:

" My mind's a machine gun, my body is the bullets, and the audience is the target."

 

[Revoltingest]

'tiz both funny and a winner

It's funny cuz it's true.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

Jimi Hendrix