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Artist Quotes (page 3)

Ron Silver quote: "Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of..."
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. Ron Silver
Sol LeWitt quote: "Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to..."
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends. Sol LeWitt
William S. Burroughs quote: "Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not..."
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. William S. Burroughs
Ted Lange quote: "Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic..."
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. Ted Lange
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark..."
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Madeleine L'Engle
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Billy Joel
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. Erykah Badu
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time! Roy Ayers
Guillaume Apollinaire quote: "Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. Guillaume Apollinaire
Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist. Truman Capote
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. David Herbert Lawrence
In my opinion, it is not the writer’s job to solve such problems as the existence of God, pessimism, etc. The job of the artist is only to record who under which circumstances said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist must not judge his characters or their words; he must only be an impartial witness… It is high time for writers— and especially for true artists— to admit that it is impossible to explain anything… if an artist whom the crowd trusts admits that he understands... Anton Chekhov
Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. Jasper Johns
Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that a person who so needs the surface must once have made an unfortunate grab underneath it. Perhaps these burnt children, the born artists who find their only joy in trying to falsify life's images (as if taking protracted revenge against it-), perhaps they may even belong to a hierarchy: we could tell the degree to which they are sick of life by how much they wish... Friedrich Nietzsche
This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand. John Gardner

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