She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren’t neutral.

I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he...

Artists have so much more control of their futures – they don’t need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so...

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature’; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

I’m an artist, and I’m part of every decision in a movie.

Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do...

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

Maar ik creëer niet, ik onderga.–but I do not create, I undergo.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Vivent les fous qui sautent à pieds joints là où n’osent se poser les anges.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin...

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account…

Work is the passionate energy you put into the art that defines you

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think...

As an artist, I’m aspiring for a Triple George—being compared to George Orwell, George Carlin, and Curious George.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading.

Is this when you tell me I’m your soul mate, O’Neill?

I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy.I’m tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Hepimizin içinde bir sanatçı vardır ama hepimiz vücutlarımızda kanatlar yaratması için ona yardım etmeyiz! Edenler, göklerin tadını bileceklerdir.

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you’ll learn more.

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s...

I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it detracted from the show. I more enjoyed shows where the guys...

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but...

Science and art,… they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,… then they only complicate and encumber life.

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

My daughter’s 19. I’m not asking her to develop as an artist. I’m just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

The privilege of struggling artists is … the life being buried in what we can’t really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body. Art is a bird chirping changed into something visual. Art is an image...

—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