1,307 Quotes About Artists

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm. Artists are not released from that obligation, especially as there are no works of art which do neither harm nor good. If a book, a picture or a melody is accepted by a reader, a spectator or a listener, it means that the reader, spectator or listener has had his emotions stirred; and emotions must be either harmful or useful. They cannot be neutral.

With art, we are a lively tree; without art, we're a dead log!

If you take the art train, the stations you will get off are very obvious: Thought-station; admiration station; unusualness station; universality-station; ecstasy-station!

Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance.

Seriously, what is the source of our thoughts? How do artists create art? How do writers write? What is it that is doing the creating?

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.