3,247 Quotes About Artist

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.