Best Artist Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

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’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.

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’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

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

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too.

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty…. Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!

Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot!

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.

Great art can only be created out of love.

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.

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

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

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.