Artist Quotes

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the...

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this ...

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we ca...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that ta...

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, invo...

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life a...

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in...

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the...

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out in...

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participa...

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell t...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an act...

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or inte...

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a differen...

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general object...

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is wha...

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's han...

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is eas...

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's han...

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any spe...

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis...

No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rathe...

The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas sto...

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be a...

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...

And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which w...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal ...

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form...

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small t...

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small ...

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but y...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi...

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has...

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what th...

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object enti...

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it...

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people wh...

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th...

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some con...

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like...

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, yo...

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guit...

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indol...

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint t...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc...

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the...

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help...

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling com...

And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pl...

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meiste...

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they gi...

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious...