Artists Quotes

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

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

~ Nuno Roque

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

You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain.

~ Jenim Dibie

Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.

~ Teresa R. Funke

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

~ Anne Rice

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

~ Unarine Ramaru

We are defined as artists by the pull of our hearts, not the creation of our hands.

~ Edward Mooney

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is the ritual of immortality.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Century Theatre. Then, as now, my imagination was magnetized toward transient artists - toward the transience as much as the artists. I must have seen Acrobats in a Park at the time I wrote the story as exotic, free of any experience as I knew it. At the center of the little story is the Zorro's act: the feat of erecting a structure of their bodies that holds together, interlocked, and stands like a wall. Writing about the family act, I was writing about the family itself, its strength as a unit, testing its frailty under stress. I treated it in an artificial and oddly formal way; the stronghold of the family is put on view as a structure built each night; on the night before the story opens, the Wall has come down when the most vulnerable member slips, and the act is done for. But from various points within it and from outside it, I've been writing about the structure of the family in stories and novels ever since. In spite of my uncompromising approach to it, my fundamental story form might have been trying to announce itself to me.

~ Eudora Welty

The mind is like an empty canvas and we are all artists, who spend our entire lives creating our own unique masterpieces.

~ Jason Medina

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Love is an art and this world lack artists.

~ Javaria Waseem

Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those who can stand out from the crowd by becoming a memorable flower — one that moves us, inspires us, and makes us think hard. A flower with no smell to it is just something to look at. A flower that emits a beautiful fragrance is the one we want in our homes and on our walls. Your mission as an artist, is to become the best-smelling flower in the world, so that when the day finally comes when you are plucked from the ground, the world will cry for the loss of your mind-stimulating fragrance. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in garden loaded with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

~ Suzy Kassem

A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an irreversible, lifetime mistake is the first step of living an artistic existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

~ Willa Cather

General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all There does exist a real magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: This is Life. Sex says: This is Living.

~ Alexandra York