The craving for recognition is every artist’s Achilles heel.

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

Artists,” he said, “are people who say, ‘I can’t fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven...

It isn’t that I dislike artists, but I can’t stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art...

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don’t wanna care what they think about my...

…As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

After all, Paul Robeson said, ‘Artists are the radical voice of civilization.’ Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way...

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

It’s hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

I’ve been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I’ve been listening to a lot of.

Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he’s and artist, and there’s something about artists that seems to act on the other sex like catnip on cats.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Don’t separate ‘real’ life from ‘creative’ life.

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of...

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.