A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.
The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am here to make you comfortable.
Great artists suffer for the people.
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it...
Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.
Its not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer you must understand, appreciate and harness the power you hold!
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'
All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected...
Artists shows us what we blind to.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to ma...
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history...
But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.
The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas