Artist Quotes

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--even if rejected--enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters.

~ Alice Walker

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...

~ Oksana Rus

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...

~ Oksana Rus

Infatuated painted clouds, enamored of our silky bed-lagoon, reflect with silent tremors your sweetest of the kisses...whispers...then lightly consume its shining sunset skin with loving smiles greeting the lacy starry night ahead...making our senses dance so softly stepping on to the adorn petals of the place no one else knows...

~ Oksana Rus

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

~ A.d. Posey

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

~ Naomi Wolf

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

~ Oksana Rus

The sky blue strengthens slowly, the dawn light rosy and pale the summer song of our romance begin to unveil...with every heart beat and the waves' breath...the time stood in harmony still. Your morning kiss my hands could feel...by your lips soft, so warm, so very gentle, nice and full of life...

~ Oksana Rus

Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I'm back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace... The power in your touch, serenity of stride... The beating of your heart calms down my presence, gracing with eternal peace of mind... Bathing in the sunshine of your arms I'm deeply aware of the melodic stream that has no language...gliding beneath the quiet Heaven of your eyes...

~ Oksana Rus

Soft on the neck of either dove love's hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love's twilight wanes...

~ Oksana Rus

In advanced societies it is not the race politicians or the rights leaders who create the new ideas and the new images of life and man. That role belongs to the artists and intellectuals of each generation. Let the race politicians, if they will, create political, economic or organizational forms of leadership; but it is the artists and the creative minds who will, and must, furnish the all important content. And in this role, they must not be subordinated to the whims and desires of politicians, race leaders and civil rights entrepreneurs whether they come from the Left, Right, or Center, or whether they are peaceful, reform, violent, non-violent or laissez-faire. Which means to say, in advanced societies the cultural front is a special one that requires special techniques not perceived, understood, or appreciated by political philistines.

~ Harold Cruse

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

~ Hermann Hesse

All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.

~ Edmund De Waal

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

~ Amit Kalantri

It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him.

~ Bonnie Macbird

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

~ Pawan Mishra

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and guesses at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words—just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its inventors. All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are—accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

~ Genereux Philip

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

~ Genereux Philip

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

~ Genereux Philip

If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.

~ Genereux Philip

Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG

~ Genereux Philip

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

~ Criss Jami

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

~ Nuno Roque

The history of time is captured by poet, artist, writer, photographer…!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

~ Novalis

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

~ Válgame

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

~ J.c. Lillis

What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.

~ Wes Jackson

God writes love and speaks poetry.

~ Criss Jami

Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.

~ Germany Kent

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

~ Oksana Rus

Art is a positive FORCE that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

An artist sees not only the thing, but he also hears its inner voice.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be a great artist especially when you draw your life’s picture.

~ Debasish Mridha

Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

~ Madeleine L'engle