Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what’s going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I’m totally against.

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if...

I think as a society we forget that men also have daddy issues, they’ve also had bad childhoods, they’re vulnerable beings.. They also need love. We are made to think men don’t have a hard...

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the...

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the...

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I’m doing so they can confront...

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, “I AM HERE”… To whom?.. To where?… Where am I going to…?

A good artist should laugh often!

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure…

I am the Constellation of my own

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study… Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance...

I don’t think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

Well, I’m a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might’ve done…But it didn’t transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort...

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

All of us,’ he said, ‘have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in...

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844)

With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Anyone who doesn’t know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

I’ve never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that’s not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone’s image is as an artist is what they’ve chosen to portray.

I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.

Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

The thing about being an artist,” Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, “is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your...

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist’s life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal...

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that’s the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the...

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He’s an artist with his feet.

Damien Hirst is acceptable because he’s a brand. It’s like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it’s a massive waste of money but most will just shrug and move on

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I’ve made some credible albums and there’ve been things that are long-lasting, it’s because those artists took the time and we built an idea.