Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, ‘Painting is now played out.’ But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. ‘We were wrong,’ said...

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they’ve been confessing shit all their life.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others – priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior – hold us to the path of history. They keep us...

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only...

Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn’t the real problem, though it took him a long...

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish – whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it....

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

I found that those friends of mine who welcomed the unseen into the realm of their seen offered immediate understanding. Some are Christians, some are not. Most are artists of some kind or other; artistry...

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and the other madness, yet he will find no peace on either,...

I’ve always gotten along best with artists.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to...

We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life.

The motivation of all artists is ‘Look at me, Mum’.

You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It’s therapy.

All artists have insecurity.

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...

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Everything an artist smells, hears, tastes, touches becomes part of his art.

Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man’s dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century...

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something–a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

A ‘black’ man who draws a ‘black’ person with big lips is called observant. A ‘white’ man who does the same is called a racist.

He said, “Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway) will truly suit them best. For me, although many different art forms attract...

All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces...

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we’re artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn’t...

My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the...