#artist

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

#art #artisan #artist #became #becomes

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up. ↗

— Andrew Jack

#australia #being #being broke #broke #coming

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. ↗

— Mencius

#artist #bids #desire #forbids #him

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#also #artists #because #causes #children

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. ↗

— Jen Knox

#artist #empathy #life #philosophy #truth

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#artist #choice #dare #freedom #inside

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#any #artist #been #could #give

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#being #certainly #great #his #known

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#discovers #gives #him #himself #incitement