Artists Quotes

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

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

The best artists know what to leave out.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

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

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists.

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

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

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

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

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

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.