Artist Quotes - Page 36

• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Psychosis, Two, Neurosis

  "There's something about Sam" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, Fun, Needs

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Believe, History

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper, September 15, 1992.

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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  Pablo Picasso

  Paint, Hundred, Theme

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

  Steve Vai

  Home, Musical, Tools

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

  Steve Vai

  Song, Thinking, Cameras

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  Pablo Picasso

  Interesting, Matter, Masters

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

  Donatella Versace

  Photography, Genius, Our Time

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Order, Painter

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso, Deborah Povey (1995). “A Picasso bestiary”, Academy Editions Ltd

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• The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Musician, Invisible, Poet

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 198

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• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Portraits, Starting

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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Class, Distinction, Concerned

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Quality, Different, World

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• I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

  Pink

  Song, Badass, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Human Nature, Scholar

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Degrees, Answers, World

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• One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Horrible, Conclusion

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Past

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Life, Giving, Confusion

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Fun, Hiking

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• What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Commercial Art, America

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

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• But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Should, One Thing

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Names, Way

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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