Top Artist Quotes

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

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

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.

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

I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak to the moon. I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, ups...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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!...

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.

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

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...

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

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.