Artist Quotes

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to t...

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhi...

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic...

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work...

...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to th...

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no...

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for th...

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someon...

I want to be famous but unknown!

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind thei...

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the fin...

The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his o...

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. I...

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,Than a sublime art frivolously.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is re...

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically oppo...

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and disc...

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great...

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to...

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way...

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical ...

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Oh say can you see Alma. The darlingof Them. All her friends were artists.They alone have memories. ...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under ...

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, lik...

Caricature is rough truth.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Art is a delayed echo.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art upsets science reassures.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be consci...

Art is a kind of illness.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in you...

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that ar...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced t...

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into i...

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before ...

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, priso...

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impressi...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of...

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he mak...

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would...

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restles...

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had i...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where th...

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and diffic...

The light of artistic creation is also blinding.The artist can’t see the suffering he causesto those...

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares...

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzle...

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it ...

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrati...

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not a...

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork ...

The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of ...

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slo...

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who ...

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what...

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.