For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his...
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...
Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. Thi...
But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.
Art does what reality cannot.
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.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!
With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the tre...
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
Feet on the ground, head in the clouds. That's how giants walk.
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the co...
Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the fron...
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world
The first thousand are the hardest.
The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.