3,247 Quotes About Artist

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.