Artists Quotes

The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become smal...

How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs...

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of tha...

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes ...

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better th...

The best artists know what to leave out.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also...

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been do...

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselv...

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everyth...

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in ...

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's the...

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are ru...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

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

Miss Mapp moved towards the screen."What a delicious big screen," she said."Yes, but don't go behind...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

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

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behi...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had ju...

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no...

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in...

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too mu...

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its cl...

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

How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What ha...

Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not questio...

After all, Paul Robeson said, ‘Artists are the radical voice of civilization.’ Each and every one of...

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, t...

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

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, t...

...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become thei...

There are a good many people of the same kind as Harry. Many artists are of his kind. These persons ...

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the ...

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that o...

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had...

We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all wan...

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the t...

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at ...

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us whi...

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the vis...

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools...

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negati...

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar ...

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

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

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mo...

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

Great artists suffer for the people.

Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by so...

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist...

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does ...

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael a...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

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

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

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist...

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

Girls do go for the finely-chiselled. And apart from his looks, he's and artist, and there's somethi...

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in ...

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, s...

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating ever...

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged con...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that se...