Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.

That’s all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since...

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It’s not a fantasy picture. You’re dealing with something that’s supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as...

It’s true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?

A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths. If you stopped being creative out of fear or loss of...

If you see me sitting at a dining room table with a clean plate and bowl in front of me, you’ll know it’s because I’m a starving artist. I’m also thirsty, as my cup is...

The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)…to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.

As an artist, you don’t think about the parabola or the arc you’re describing or where you’re going to ultimately end up, you’re just kind of crawling around, seeing what’s out there.

Being an artist is not easy – I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It’s a huge sacrifice.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of...

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we’re plunging in for the best treats

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Smatrao sam da je jedina ispravna pozicija umetnika, pozicija izdajnika. Umetnik je onaj čiji smeh za pretke i tradiciju porugom se ori. Umetnost mora da stremi razlici, Drugom.

As an artist, I can’t be responsible for how people interpret material.

I’ve always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Luckily, I don’t have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don’t expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it’s a great place to be.