Artists Quotes

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

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

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

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

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

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

If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

I've always been a fine artist.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

True artists scorn nothing.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Creative artists have great passion.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Re-creative artists are investigators.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

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

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

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

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.