Quotes by Artist My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest. Albert Brooks dabs definitions artist The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. Albert Camus combat army artist Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. Albert Camus source artist lifetime In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. Albert Camus artist believe world The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus community artist judging Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists. Albert Camus modern able artist It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. Albert Camus artist struggle art The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine. Albert Camus birth revolution artist The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind. Albert Camus artist night fall Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. Albert Camus stronger artist men True artists scorn nothing. Albert Camus true-artists scorn artist Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein track artist heart Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. Albert Einstein artist taken evil The greatest scientists are artists as well. Albert Einstein scientist wells artist Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Albert Pike genius artist men It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama. Albert Pinkham Ryder artist dream two The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein? Albert Pinkham Ryder color artist clouds The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. Albert Pinkham Ryder strive artist expression The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. Albert Pinkham Ryder details artist fear The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man. Albert Pinkham Ryder artist dream men «4567891011121314»