… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

In the UK and the US especially you’ve got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There’s many artists who would not do a live show...

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I’m always looking beyond the surface. I’ve done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!

And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too

But I also think it’s up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

He said, one has to learn that painting well – in the academic and technical sense – comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you’ve got that ability. So have thousands.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

I do believe most curators – maybe I’m only speaking for myself here – want to be artists on some level. Curators must have an innate interest in what an artist makes. And they certainly...

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give...

Artists need to express.

Magic is logic.

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

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

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never...

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always goes to my head. It is a sensation something between that...

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

We don’t know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can’t be.

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative…art, if you like, is really a lack...

You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the...

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

What wedo with them…I think that’s what makes us artists.

Querida quem faz arte sofre como os outros só que tem um meio de expressão.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Then Martine said: “So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?”Poor?” said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great...

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down...

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the same.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Look, I don’t see why bad artists – I mean artists who are obviously incompetent… – why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they’re supposed to be advancing the frontiers of...

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists’ lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

We are uniquely magnificent!

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don’t get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are...