My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

Diversity matters. Not only in what we look like, or what religion we practice, or in whom we love, but also in how we live our lives, including the order in which we go about...

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to...

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does not pierce you with the hawk’s eye or the falcon’s gaze of a cavalry officer. The...

Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that “looks like art” and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. Curators pander to the expectations of their peers and...

I do not fear that “future generations will not read novels,” etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(…)art is not the...

There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered...

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say ‘this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian’. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can...

Gostaria que alguém tentasse escrever um dia uma história trágica da literatura, na qual expusesse como as diferentes nações, cada uma das quais deposita seu maior orgulho nos grandes escritores e artistas que tem a...

I don’t think artists are made, I think they’re born.

Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

…hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HIV – I...

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the “skill” (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the “quality of painting” (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go...

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they...

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make...

There’s this misconception that artists should create their own mythologies, through how they live. Not true. They should create their own mythologies through their work. In whatever styles, textures and approaches they choose to use.

Someone asked me a while back, ‘Why do artists always write about love?’ And I was like, ‘Love is the coolest thing that’s ever happened in the world.’

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

There’s definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

…when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another. But when you enter the world of the cartoon, you see yourself.

Everybody says they want artists to make money and then when they do, everybody hates them for it. The word sellout is spit out by the bitterest, smallest parts of ourselves. Don’t be one of...

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.