Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study… Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance...

I don’t think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

Well, I’m a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might’ve done…But it didn’t transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort...

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

All of us,’ he said, ‘have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in...

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844)

With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Anyone who doesn’t know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I’ve never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that’s not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone’s image is as an artist is what they’ve chosen to portray.

I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.

Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

The thing about being an artist,” Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, “is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your...

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist’s life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal...

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that’s the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the...

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He’s an artist with his feet.

Damien Hirst is acceptable because he’s a brand. It’s like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it’s a massive waste of money but most will just shrug and move on

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I’ve made some credible albums and there’ve been things that are long-lasting, it’s because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all...

Allí donde alguien se orienta deliberadamente por el público, estamos ante un producto de la industria del entretenimiento, ante shows y espectáculos de masas, nunca ante el arte, que indefectiblemente tiene que seguir sus leyes...

A bad magician never gets the good props.

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they...

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Is the phrase ‘pay’ or ‘play the piper’I inquire, why’Cause I admire a desire to flip the switchYeah make a way to face the music likeLife savings for a mosh pit riotListen to a mixRock...

I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

This is my logo for Art and Books

I’m a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent,...

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we’re fighting against. They’re just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like...

When I came out, I said, ‘I’m going to be a proud gay artist.’ I’m not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she’s a goddess!

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation...

Van Gogh on his brother’s upcoming marriage: “It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while not denying the advantages of a marriage in the very least, once it...