Contemplative Artist Quotes

#1. Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. #Quote by Lawrence Durrell

#2. Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. #Quote by Roger McGuinn

#3. If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem. #Quote by KRS-One

#4. God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing. #Quote by Johnnie Dent Jr.

#5. I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for. #Quote by Al Franken

#6. The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.' #Quote by LeRoy Neiman

#7. The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home. #Quote by Lil' Kim

#8. In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early. #Quote by Simon De Pury

#9. I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. #Quote by Simon Cowell

#10. When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist. #Quote by Frank Wildhorn

#11. Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul.
Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.
Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her
life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary! #Quote by Karen O

#12. The artist-philosopher. Higher concept of art. Whether a man can remove himself far enough from other men, in order to give them form. 1. the one who gives himself form, the hermit; 2, the artist hitherto, as the insigificant perfecter of a piece of raw material. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. #Quote by Norman Mailer

#14. To dwell in the place of God, as Evagrius puts it, is to live with a particular intense awareness of this reality, to know oneself not as a solitary, autonomous being but as one whose identity can only be conceived of as existing within an intricate web of encompassing relationships. The primary work of contemplative practice is to become more aware of this web of relationships, to learn to live within it fully and responsibly and to give expression to it in one's life. #Quote by Douglas E. Christie

#15. An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. #Quote by George Santayana

#16. Many artists give up after a while. #Quote by Angie Stone

#17. Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made. #Quote by Ananda Coomaraswamy

#18. It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude. #Quote by Guy De Maupassant

#19. When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday, but that doesn't seem so important. What's important to me is getting to live my life as an artist, and making my passion my work. I have never wanted to be anything other than an actor and performer, and each day that I get to do that is a day well spent. #Quote by Jinkx Monsoon

#20. The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward. #Quote by Alan Cohen

#21. And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. #Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

#22. The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. #Quote by Afrika Bambaataa

#24. I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but ... I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment. #Quote by Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#25. Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved. #Quote by Andrew McAleer

#26. I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability. #Quote by Sylvester Stallone

#27. I found no muse on Hyperion during those first years. For many, the expansion of distance because of limited transportation - EMVs were unreliable, skimmers scarce - and the contraction of artificial consciousness due to absence of datasphere, no access to the All Thing, and only one fatline transmitter - all led to a renewal of creative energies, a new realization of what it meant to be human and an artist. Or so I heard. No muse appeared. My verse continued to be technically proficient and dead as Huck Finn's cat. I decided to kill myself. #Quote by Dan Simmons

#28. In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. #Quote by Toni Morrison

#29. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part ... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? #Quote by Richard Feynman

#30. The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore. #Quote by Gene Luen Yang

#31. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up. #Quote by Isaac Mizrahi

#32. I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound. #Quote by Kimbra

#33. I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone. #Quote by Stephanie Mills

#34. [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) #Quote by Pierre Mac Orlan

#35. For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? #Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

#36. Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. #Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

#37. I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. #Quote by Julian Schnabel

#38. What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. #Quote by Lionel Trilling

#39. The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell. #Quote by Jon Landau

#40. The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it. #Quote by Ben Harper

#41. She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how to give form to an idea that seems too vague to express. #Quote by Maryanne O'Hara

#42. Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world. #Quote by Ursula Nordstrom

#43. What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? #Quote by Laura Dern

#44. The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism #Quote by Miguel El Portugues