3,247 Quotes About Artist

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.