Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all “There does exist a real magic”.

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

…and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one’s capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one’s greatness.

Don’t listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they’re the first to tell us where we’re going.

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

They’d lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured...

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Her secret? It is every artist’s secret–passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to...

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary...

A genius doesn’t adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant’s taste

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and...

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen.

Art does what reality cannot.

I’m flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

Know everything. Say nothing.

It’s the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He’s a demagogue. He panders.

We are the next us.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance– not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble...

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you’d pissed off some witch, then what’s she gonna...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it’s pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

I had a dream about you. You were trying to perfect the art of sexual intercourse, and I offered you the use of one of my statues to practice on. Artists have to stick together,...

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is...

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

So many artists say they’re not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I...

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

Collaborative workshops and writers’ peer groups hadn’t been invented when I was young. They’re a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of...

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know...

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they are (even as they cannot help being who they are.) We...

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

Time and death: It’s the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It’s just what’s there. It was not something I planned to do.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you’re going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.