Best Artist Quotes

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

There’s a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.

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

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don’t make it any harder on yourself.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

I don’t want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don’t already agree with him.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Great art can only be created out of love.

If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot!

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

A man can be an artist… in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey’s art is death. He’s about to paint his masterpiece.

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It’s either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there’s always a buzzing beneath you.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it’s called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.