Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can’t do it. You can’t expect them to love you.

Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you’re an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that...

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something...

For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger...

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if...

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for...

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Dogmatism of all kinds–scientific, economic, moral, as well as political–are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists...

It takes an artist…. to be an artist

Every world needed an artist.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the...

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out...

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be… I see it as the clearest evidence...

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.

How are his poems?””He’s not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Bleed me of art, and there won’t be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall,...

Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I’ve had that I’m so thankful for.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you...

,Acaso un artista puede amar tanto su trabajo que, si piensa que su obra no tiene vida, tampoco él quiere tenerla ya?

A lot of my building blocks – who I am kind of as an artist – all came from being in L.A.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

As an artist, motive means opportunity

There’s not a hip-hop artist that didn’t snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It’s totally impossible.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn’t for *that*, what is it for?

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

I don’t really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people’s hands. But I’m kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

I didn’t do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

People say ‘I love Artists’, but what they really know about Artists? They’ve ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is...

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the...

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.