3,247 Quotes About Artist

We watch the kites circling, and I imagine them setting fire to the way my life has been before this moment. I imagine the smoke reshaping me. I reimagine myself as my first work, the art that comes before all other art I might one day make, the work I fashion only for myself and for those who have the eyes to see it.

Human impotence necessitates art.

An artist looks at a piece of paper or holds an instrument in hand and then stops, going “off-hook.” These are the precious moments of the reverie—the “dial-up” preceding a possible “handshake,” following which the connection is put through and the flow begins.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.

Sometimes the hardest battles only exists within ourselves, our mind fighting amongst the demons of thought within our own head.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

By far, the hardest part regarding a work of art, apart from the start, is knowing precisely when to stop...It's growing up, finding that most glowing and top spot, ascending to where its highest peak is reached...before descending for the deepest, darkest drop.

When a good artist finds a perfect working environment, she wants to create a perfect work because her sensitive soul wants to pay her debt perfectly to that perfect place!

C. Y. Croc knows that like art, stories can be subjective. What can be appealing for one person can be unappealing to another.She hopes you have a happy few hours getting lost in her art! ; )