I’m an artist, but I’m also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

I’m hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the...

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out...

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

It’s an artist’s choice to listen to criticism or not. I’m very sensitive to criticism.

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when...

Others, faced with Turner’s competitiveness were less contented. C.R. Leslie was on hand when Turner’s Helvoetsluys, to start with “a grey pictre, beautiful and true, but with no positive colour in any part of it”,...

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you’ve done is honest is the artist.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They’re always wondering what the next thing is: ‘What do you have?’ It’s a very introverted process.

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can’t do it. You can’t expect them to love you.

Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you’re an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that...

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something...

For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger...

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if...

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for...

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Dogmatism of all kinds–scientific, economic, moral, as well as political–are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists...

It takes an artist…. to be an artist

Every world needed an artist.

There’s not a hip-hop artist that didn’t snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It’s totally impossible.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn’t for *that*, what is it for?

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be… I see it as the clearest evidence...

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.

How are his poems?””He’s not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Bleed me of art, and there won’t be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall,...

Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I’ve had that I’m so thankful for.