The Body Artist Quotes

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

I'm an exceptional artist. Trapped in the body of man with no musical — Kathleen Tessaro

People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist. — Kate Bush

The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see. — Don DeLillo

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts. — Jimenez Lai

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. — Marc Davis

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before. — Sally Mann

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it. — Jan Peacock

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing. — Philip Pearlstein

If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in. — Christina Hendricks

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. — Patti Smith

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people, — Gabriela Mistral

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. — Emmanuelle Beart

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored. — Elfriede Jelinek

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. — Jacques-Louis David

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM. — Renae A. Sauter

My child has to be an artist,
because conceiving her will be the best art
my body has ever accommodated. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both. — Wendy Starland

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth. — Michael Hyatt

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace. — Nikki Rowe

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them. — Jose Antonio Carrillo

Aaron was an artist in the body of a biker. He smiled easily like a sweet boy next door and glared often like a bad boy looking for someone to punch. — Bijou Hunter

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society. — Orlan

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind. — DJ Jazzy Jeff