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.

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.

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.

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

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

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...

To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

He’s been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he’s come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I...

Art can only be taught by artists.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in...

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

That’s what dreams are really like, you know? They’re not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It’s...

Liebe Tochter, zum Geburtstag kriegst duHöchstens E-Mail mit Musik.An die harte Matratze schmiegst dudeine Wange. Kunst ist Krieg.

That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an...

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...

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.

What an artist finds, he finds without looking for it.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like...

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one’s ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Daniel’s desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of himself as the act of drawing. His body of work is his life, it is his continuity....

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.