Artistic Stereotypes Quotes

The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.