Top Artist Quotes

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Artist Definition

(n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.

(n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

(n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

(n.) An artful person; a schemer.

Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise? Lows and highs, Believing in lies, In life we have to improvise. Frustration and cries, The last leg of sighs, You are the dreamer in disguis...

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now!...

Art fuels the fire inside me.

I don't paint what people expect, I paint what my heart yearns to express.

Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which...

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings...

What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and c...

You can't put a leash on me. I'm unleashable!