If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

I think it’s shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don’t want my name anywhere near another brand.

Now relax, think positively and begin — the smile of success awaits you.

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don’t say that with any type of...

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Nude paintings and sculptures are called “art” only in the museums..Outside of the museums, It is “Absurdity” and “Vulgarity”.To respect your own creative talent and the prosperity of your “art”, let only the Gurus critique,...

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

It’s not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.

—except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it’s like painting air-brushed people. Give me something...

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green...

I’m making art.Terra

I played an artist in a comedy called ‘Rooster.’ It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including ‘Magnum PI.’

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

I’m not an artist that makes singles, I’m an artist that makes albums, and it’s a totally different thing.

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if...

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 after that.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art…I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Every intelligent person, whether he’s an artist or not – a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist – possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

I don’t feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.

As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it’s hard sometimes as a new...

Y el artista no es, como el vulgo piensa, una persona jovial que esparce por aquí y por allá obras de arte por mera exuberancia, sino que infortunadamente es por lo general una pobre alma...

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing…

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Life. Life is a show. It’s up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet,...

Like a statue, I’m hairless. Also like a statue, I have hair. Let’s make love like a dandelion goes bald in the breeze.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

Women, the most beautiful things in the world,” answers the model. As if it’s the only thing worth painting, as if everyone should aspire to it. Normally coming from a guy that answer would sound...

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

‎”But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all…....

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his...

I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what...

I don’t think I’m an artist or that I’m doing anything superintellectual. What’s important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it’s beautiful.

Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?” “Yes, Sage” he said patiently. “We use it all the time with art, … That, and I know how to use a dictionary

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence