In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

Not every artist is a role model.

I’m an artist. I’m a cave painter. Archaeologists and art critics of the future are going to call me a genius. They’re going to say I was so far ahead of my time that I...

As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not...

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

We didn’t come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book...

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

And in fact the artist’s experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and...

Žene su me privlačile, ali sam smatrao da ja kao umetnik ne treba da imam išta s njima, jer to može samo da šteti mojoj umetnosti.

When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it’s generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things...

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Genius – the pursuit of madness.

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he’s created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like ‘Novacane.’

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)

This is my logo for Ora

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?” “I’ll make time,” I promised. “The house will not...

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what...

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with...

I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I’m creating in a way that isn’t trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us… a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it...

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don’t keep office hours.

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what’s going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I’m totally against.

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if...

I think as a society we forget that men also have daddy issues, they’ve also had bad childhoods, they’re vulnerable beings.. They also need love. We are made to think men don’t have a hard...

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the...

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the...

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I’m doing so they can confront...

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, “I AM HERE”… To whom?.. To where?… Where am I going to…?

A good artist should laugh often!