When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch...

I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist....

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a...

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.!

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a...

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist – it wasn’t just about painting, it was about media and performance.

…if you’re an artist, you’ve submitted to authority…

…she (the artist, the writer) doesn’t wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

You can’t reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

I’ve never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I’m an actor, but I’m an artist.

I should ask if it was good for you,” Miles murmured, “but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one’s vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who...

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than...

I learned that I’ have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I...

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

D.D.R.C.T. which stands for “Dreams Do Really Come True”. Yes, I’m a firm believer about that. I can even stand in a crowd and be an ambassador of Dreams Do Come True Club.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone’s always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and...

It’s always been most important for me to figure out “my space” rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to...

Use your special gifts to fulfil your divine purpose.

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers…

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that...

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

It used to be that you’d have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

[…] I’ve come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold...

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, “completes what nature left unfinished.

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered…

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don’t know you, and people who do.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and then to my knee. I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that the...

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.