Irving Stone Quotes

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

Only be an artist if you have no choice!

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.