3,247 Quotes About Artist

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don’t do that with any other artists.

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.

Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.

Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just dance. Set this scene into motion.

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.