When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim...

Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to...

Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s...

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.’

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to...

I don’t know what people find or like in me, I’m hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I’ve always considered myself a popular artist.

No matter what as an artist that’s always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you’re singing about,...

We all have an artist within us; but not all of us help him to create wings on our bodies! Those who help will know the taste of the skies!

Crumb was such an influence on me. He’s such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way...

If you’re a musician and an artist, you don’t just stop.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart...

Mediocrity is Death.

Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real...

You won’t change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

wandering is an art and wandering compassion-less is best form of an art.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

I’d love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I’d love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

Freedom can choke you if you don’t know how to handle it.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Miss, I’d gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece…?

I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that’s all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame. I think that’s important. I believe the best art uses the...

As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there’s a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In ’05, I was part...

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in...

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the space in-between we think we once found a truth; and the...

The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn’t wait for no man, and that’s why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

I love doing logos. I’ve been a graphic artist all my life.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it’s because I’m pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I’m just bored doing what everyone wants me to...