It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent...

I’m an artist, I’m not an activist.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can’t remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I’ve become an artist. I’ve become...

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch...

I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist....

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a...

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.!

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a...

If it’s your greatest dream, you wouldn’t give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it’s not going to be...

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that’s exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects...

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

You can usually tell when people aren’t being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn’t use an easel. Easels...

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one’s vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who...

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than...

I learned that I’ have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I...

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

D.D.R.C.T. which stands for “Dreams Do Really Come True”. Yes, I’m a firm believer about that. I can even stand in a crowd and be an ambassador of Dreams Do Come True Club.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone’s always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and...

It’s always been most important for me to figure out “my space” rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to...

Use your special gifts to fulfil your divine purpose.

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers…

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist – it wasn’t just about painting, it was about media and performance.

…if you’re an artist, you’ve submitted to authority…

…she (the artist, the writer) doesn’t wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

You can’t reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

I’ve never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I’m an actor, but I’m an artist.

I should ask if it was good for you,” Miles murmured, “but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.