3,247 Quotes About Artist

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

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

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

—except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it’s like painting air-brushed people. Give me something raw any day.