Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

You must be Independent, Independent, Independent – don’t talk so much but do more – go your own way and let your neighbour go his… Shake off all the props – the props tradition and...

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I’ve become a whore for my craft.

Sorrowful and great is the artist’s destiny.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that’s always thinking. A good...

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

If my clone were a painter, he’d be an impressionist.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible...

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist

The words of the Quran all seemedstrangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embraced Islam in1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. ‘I...

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark… my value unhangable.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

But if a role model in her seventies isn’t layered with contradictions – as we all come to be – then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another’s existence and...

From their ’61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It’s the musical trough from...

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main...

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

Growing up, I’d already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I’d dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I’d listen to cool jazz...

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

People aren’t going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.

I am living breathing freedom

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

If you had to sacrifice three people to save six people, would you do it? I would—if the three were politicians and the six were teachers, inventors, artists, or anybody but lawyers, lobbyists, or central...

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth nothing or he is worth something. If he is worth something then he...

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they’re musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it’s in their blood.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I’m a martial artist. I’ve boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Telle une pierre philosophale, l’authenticité semble ainsi avoir le pouvoir de transformer en or l’assemblage de toile et de pigments que constitue un tableau.

This was not the perfect work that had existed in her mind. It was only the imperfect rendering that was the best her skill could manage. Yet Giulia was not dismayed. For she knew that...

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely – in conjunction, of course, with...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens...

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a...

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.

Dawn and sunset are the times when Nature herself is unstable and in flux. The nocturnal world and the daytime world are meeting, and for a brief time coexisting. It’s not a neat hard cut,...

I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.