In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer...

I’m glad I’ve had to struggle. It’s made me the artist I am now.

You can only be free as an artist if you’re free as a person.

I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles and he has a different role as society changes, and in...

If you’re not creating, you’re disintegrating.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively,...

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

A few people can understand the art, others just look at it and walk away. So what! Not all heads are packed with brain, some of them are accommodating emptiness.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

In 1846 on of his Academy exhibits was a painting called The Angel Standing in the Sun. Turner found this passage for the Academy catalogue in the Book of Revelation: And I saw an angel...

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that’s how I think I developed into the kind...

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece...

Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t – because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

If artists often get famous posthumously, then there is only one thing for me to do—fake my own death. Or I could just wait for science to give me a clone, and kill him instead....

I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money makes money, and if art made art, there’s no prison in this country...

I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name.

I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.

I don’t really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I’m a creative artist. All I know from business I’ve picked up along the way.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do...

The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.’

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you...

Wasn’t the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn’t have to wear a tie?

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, ‘with snow on his boots’, and it never really melted.

You say great artists sell their souls for their art?””Maybe,” she ventured.”That’s true, I suppose. If you’re doing it right, anyway. I’ve probably sold mine. Jack’s certainly sold his. And you, I imagine.””I have not!”...

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a...

You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

I can’t really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that’s a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in...

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your...

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

You must be Independent, Independent, Independent – don’t talk so much but do more – go your own way and let your neighbour go his… Shake off all the props – the props tradition and...

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I’ve become a whore for my craft.

Sorrowful and great is the artist’s destiny.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that’s always thinking. A good...

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

If my clone were a painter, he’d be an impressionist.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible...

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist

The words of the Quran all seemedstrangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embraced Islam in1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. ‘I...

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark… my value unhangable.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.