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The artist paints the face and body of the sitter, but in fact he shows his own feelings. — Oscar Wilde

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. — Mark Tobey

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. — Mick Jagger

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. — Julia Cameron

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue. — James De La Vega

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. — Walter Sickert

The true artist can only labor con amore. — Victor Hugo

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw. — Billy Childish

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. — D.H. Lawrence

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports. — David Winner

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. — Sara Genn

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family. — Erica Jong

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. — Marcel Duchamp

It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative! — Denny Dent

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that. — Jimmy Cliff

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. — Truman Capote

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career. — Sarah Gadon

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. — Carl Andre

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. — Amit Kalantri

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. — Robert Henri

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything. — Gary Inbinder

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. — Andre Malraux

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind. — Jack Shadbolt

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist. — Miyavi

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future. — Roy DeCarava

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. — Roy Lichtenstein

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist. — Dwight Yoakam

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. — Henry Miller

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in. — Sydney Banks

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it. — Mencius

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist. — Todd Rundgren

Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me. — Lizzo

The truly original artist invents his own signs. — Henri Matisse

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences. — Jane Rosenthal

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists. — Mark Mothersbaugh

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. — Laird Barron

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice. — Marina Abramovic

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. — Thane Rosenbaum

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place. — Gloria Estefan

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work. — Madeleine L'Engle

Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet. — Louise Penny

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science. — Pearl Zhu

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. — Odilon Redon

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. — Marcel Duchamp

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman. — L.J. Maas

Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people. — Waguih Ghali

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette

Ronaldinho was a trickster, an artist with the ball. Leo represents the essence of the game: speed plus skill. — Luca Caioli

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. — Bernard Iddings Bell

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. — Jennifer Stone

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel. — Pierre Berton

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude. — Criss Jami

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist. — Kiesza

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace. — Yayoi Kusama

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist. — Elton John

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery. — Paul Robeson

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. — Wassily Kandinsky

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being. — Tobin Hart

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle. — Morrissey

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat

True Fans are, loyal & unconditional
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Never let your success get the best of you!!! T.B — Tawana Beecham

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis