3,247 Quotes About Artist

Traveling changes not just a man, but his art as well.

Writing reminds me of carving a sculpture. The early rough hewing doesn't look too pretty but is necessary to reveal the chiseled artistry beneath.

Every child is an artist, and every artist carries a child within.

Maybe the knee jerk negative reaction to any criticism by artists is because criticism of art is often more valued than the creation of art. The reward isn’t placed in creating things, but showing your genius in poking holes in other people’s work.I think there are good critics out there, and criticism is necessary for the evolution of an art form. That said, I’ve been in way too many meetings where critcism were more valued than the work subjected to it.

We do not need to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of our creativity – it can be a transformative mode of healing, rather than a drawn-out self-destruction.

Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.

Everything his parents repressed, Severin contracted and kept, collected almost, with the ambition to revive it when needed.

Put on the show you want to see.

Estefania knew how to read an artist and their visions; her body would guide them through the melancholia and loneliness of a female body. Its unclaimed ecstasy.