Artists Quotes

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

Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.

People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!

Good artists are always crazy, one way or another.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.

When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch.

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

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

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Know everything. Say nothing.

Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.

Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am.

We are the next we.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

We are the next us.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

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

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world.

He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

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

The terrible things that happen to us, ” Tessa said slowly. “What wedo with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

Art does what reality cannot.

And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too

We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.

The first thousand are the hardest.

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the same.

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.

When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the show.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

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