A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or w...
No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What’s more, artists need effective techniques for using those too...
We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process. The weather is unpredictable, bu...
Kazuko Yoshiyama: It's a mysterious painting. If you look at it for a long time, you feel completely at peace. We don't know its artist, or whether it even has any artistic value. But... we learned one thing during the restoration. This painting was ...
Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the e...
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist
The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.
Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.
A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.
Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.
There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.
