1,307 Quotes About Artists

Why does it seem as if the poorly adjusted people – the misfits and social outsiders – create art and the most sane and rational of the human species make money? Does creating art require a person to tap into the irrational magma of their soul?

Art is anything that sends you back to yourself.

I'll never understand any artist who agrees to be paid to create empty work or work for unnecessary appeasement. Art is always a statement. It should at the very least, be thought-provoking. To write an empty message is a disgusting vandalism.

Before becoming an artist myself, I used to visit galleries and I enjoy someone's work... Now I visit galleries and I can enjoy seeing others enjoying my work.

You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain.

Artists pass on their dreams.

You must learn to bend to open windows, my friend. That is why artists and dancers are closest to God. They clench their chests every day to salute the Creator, while opening up portals to the universe. The artist mediates and prays as he/she creates, knowing somewhere, deep down --- creativity is the highest transmission of love.

There are ways of entering the dream / The way a painter enters a studio: / To spill.

We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.