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.

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

Guys don’t understand great art. They don’t care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They’re threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me....

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover...

Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

… but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with...

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little...

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied...

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they’ll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful...

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.

The idea that any art is achieved ‘intuitively’ is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of...

Yes, but the artist?” said Nigel almost fiercely. “He’s different, you know he is. He’s driven by some compulsion: if he can’t do what he knows he has to do with his life he might...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Most artists weren’t famous until they died (mostly because once they’d died they couldn’t create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in...

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance.If, on the other hand, we...

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin’s...

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

The first thousand are the hardest.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

I think I’m more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a...

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may...

I’m finding that I’m working with more and more Latino artists, and that’s exciting.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of...

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.

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we’re all artists.

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

more to be a human being with

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

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

So, really,” continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, “when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who...

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless...

There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time you see some bad news, go do something nice for someone or go...

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge...