40 Quotes by Artist

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation.

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.