,Acaso un artista puede amar tanto su trabajo que, si piensa que su obra no tiene vida, tampoco él quiere tenerla ya?

A lot of my building blocks – who I am kind of as an artist – all came from being in L.A.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

As an artist, motive means opportunity

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.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

I don’t really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people’s hands. But I’m kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

I didn’t do music to live; I lived so that I could do music.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

People say ‘I love Artists’, but what they really know about Artists? They’ve ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is...

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the...

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

If her artist’s eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.

It’s a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to...

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all....

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.