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.

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.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It’s a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artistsjob to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefsshattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought andemotion. Art...

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called “artist’s world.

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a...

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

the bourgeoisie is sociopathic, overindulged, distracted, spoiled beyond measure, and unable to restrain its gluttony, even in the face of pending planetary destruction. In the face of such a threat, it has, by necessity, become...

Artists take on an alias that’s suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

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...

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...

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.