My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a... →
Marjane Satrapi
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and... →
George Saunders
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording... →
Boz Scaggs
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences.... →
Gerald Scarfe
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
Egon Schiele
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if... →
Stacy Schiff
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
Julian Schnabel
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
Tom Scholz