I don’t think radio is selling records like they used to. They’d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you’d get so excited, you’d stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.

I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the way a hand looked when it was relaxed. Loved the way a woman...

The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before — or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you’ve never seen it.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing—ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs...

Artist is not human, but humanity.

Don’t be an artist. Be somebody’s artist.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system...

Once an artist painted on a huge canvas – the skies;The sun, the landscapes and everything that was nice.To complete the masterpiece into the frame He came-And that is how, You, I and all life...

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

Artists are never poor, they just don’t get enough time to make money !

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Be an artist in everything you do.

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that’s like using money to bribe a beast.

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist…. Wait, are you talking about me?

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot...

With lead he shaded love into the woman’s eyes.

The shades of colours are splendid.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Theater is something that as a performance artist you have to hate.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where ‘falcons of the inner eye’dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life’s memory of existence.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I...

As a kid I never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up, but the only thing I knew was that I wanted to create things. And then I wanted to be an...

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it’s a back-and-forth process.

Art is a passion or it is nothing

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art....

I’ve never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself,...

For an artist, there’s nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn’t- but could- exist.

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Can that make any sense – a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

I want to be famous but unknown!

I’m an artist; I love everyone.

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or...

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.