Artistic Mindset Quotes

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

We Deols think from the heart. We lack business acumen.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

I approach every film like it's my debut.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.