3,247 Quotes About Artist

Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.