Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.
You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artist...
Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created because an artist gets tired of reasons sometimes, and w...
It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he h...
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as be...
I had a dream about you. You were trying to perfect the art of sexual intercourse, and I offered you the use of one of my statues to practice on. Artists have to stick together, even if one artist is sticking it to another artist’s work.
To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for its intended purpous. God is an artist. Artist do not create to have someone just glance and say "That is pretty." Artist want viewer...
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
The best writing is when one writes from the soul
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.
