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.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Artists are never poor, they just don’t get enough time to make money !

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

It’s not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it’s about paying tribute to them.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

You are on my side,” she says.”What side is that?” I ask.”The winning side,” she says, and smiles. “The team of the artists.””Who are we playing?””The barbarians,” she says. “We are always playing them.

There’s something fascinating about watching artists draw.

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than...

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

I came there again another time. And I looked many times again. I was filled with consolation, with my consolation.The thirty-three abominations were truthful. They were the truth. They were life. The sharp fragments of...

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your...

We are the next we.

Art isn’t only a painting; it’s anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment–especially in fantasy and children’s books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film Mirrormask, moving between different media....

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology...

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they’re doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Some of us are philosophers, some are artists, some are rulers and some are some-others. But, we all are makers and proud labors.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?””I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t...

Artists can do whatever they want!

It’s a good thing you and your pills weren’t around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You’d have drugged “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and...

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

We [artists] aren’t people, not the way most people are. We’re just…carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they’re serious in any way.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same...

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.