The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a...

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may...

I’m finding that I’m working with more and more Latino artists, and that’s exciting.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our...

If artists often get famous posthumously, then there is only one thing for me to do—fake my own death. Or I could just wait for science to give me a clone, and kill him instead....

Here’s one from me: ‘You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.’ If you want it, you can have it....

Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading.

So, really,” continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, “when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who...

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless...

There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time you see some bad news, go do something nice for someone or go...

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge...

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don’t think is has anything...

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

I’ve been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement...

I think it’s our job to write about what we’re going through at the moment, and being 41, I’m not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don’t think...

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists.

shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

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.