No matter what as an artist that’s always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you’re singing about,...

We all have an artist within us; but not all of us help him to create wings on our bodies! Those who help will know the taste of the skies!

Crumb was such an influence on me. He’s such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way...

If you’re a musician and an artist, you don’t just stop.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart...

Mediocrity is Death.

Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real...

You won’t change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

wandering is an art and wandering compassion-less is best form of an art.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

I’d love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I’d love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

Freedom can choke you if you don’t know how to handle it.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Miss, I’d gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece…?

I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that’s all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame. I think that’s important. I believe the best art uses the...

As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there’s a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In ’05, I was part...

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in...

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the space in-between we think we once found a truth; and the...

The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn’t wait for no man, and that’s why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

I love doing logos. I’ve been a graphic artist all my life.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it’s because I’m pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I’m just bored doing what everyone wants me to...

That’s what artists and athletes do day in and day out. Whether you see them at work or not the process is ongoing. They are working to achieve their heart’s desire to either enlighten or...

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Maar ik creëer niet, ik onderga.–but I do not create, I undergo.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Vivent les fous qui sautent à pieds joints là où n’osent se poser les anges.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin...

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account…

Work is the passionate energy you put into the art that defines you

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think...

As an artist, I’m aspiring for a Triple George—being compared to George Orwell, George Carlin, and Curious George.

An artist is always at work, whether it be anywhere.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren’t neutral.