#artist

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#greatest #memory #mind #unnecessary #your

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#artists #bit #feels #getting #headlines

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#language-of-art #signs #art

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#artists #bring #different #good #together

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#anyhow #artist #excellence #i #i always

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#artistic-training #education #liberal-arts #art

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#artist #court #i #know #law

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it. ↗

— Terri Clark

#album #artist #did #express #few

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment. ↗

— Julian Cope

#artist #away #because #become #cause

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#around #artists #believe #doing #find