People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
~ Michael Haneke
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
~ John Mcgahern
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
~ Peter Wright
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home to every day. But I wouldn't mind a relationship with the right girl. Every artist needs a muse.
~ Jc Chasez
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
~ Henri Matisse
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
~ Tennessee Williams
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
~ Edgar Bronfman
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
~ Michelle Obama
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
~ Omari Hardwick
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
~ Philippe Petit
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
~ Edward Hirsch
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
~ Émile Zola
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
~ Adolf Loos
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
~ Gustav Klimt
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
~ Henry Miller
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
~ Twyla Tharp
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
~ John Lennon
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
~ Marina Abramović
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
~ Serj Tankian
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
~ Saul Steinberg
