1,307 Quotes About Artists

Passion is creativity on fire

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

Todo niño es un artista que canta, baila, pinta, cuenta historias y construye castillos. Los grandes artistas son personas extrañas que han logrado preservar en el fondo de su alma esa candidez sagrada de la niñez y de los hombres que llamamos primitivos, y por eso provocan la risa de los estúpidos.

Time is the architect of fate, fleeting omen, pure phantom in enchanting light of absence,and our life the play of love and death,only love will never die,because In love no longer ‘thou’ and ‘I’ exist, only the blossom of sacred unity.

Comfort rarely produces great art.

Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails