top of page
Exlpore more Artist quotes

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Explore more quotes by Loren Eiseley

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
bottom of page