Urs Fischer Quotes

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways. It's amazing that I get to create every day, as an actor, or a director, or a writer, and I get to do it in a variety of different genres and worlds and characterizations. I think that's the great privilege of what we do, we get to make believe. I get to go to so many different places, try on different occupations, take on different points of view. That's what's always been sort of alluring.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.

You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.