3,247 Quotes About Artist

We may never pick up a paintbrush or sculpt a masterpiece, but each one of us—without exception—is an artist in our own way.

Great artists need great clients.

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic.

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make more art.

We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people’s expectations.

I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.