1,307 Quotes About Artists

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

Creation is like anything else good:You have to wait on it; ambition has killed moreArtists than indolence.

Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value

Je sais qu'une fois face à mon installation, je serai à l'intérieur de moi, quelque part où personne ne peut me distraire ni m'intimider, dans l'état proche de la transe. Le problème, c'est de rentrer dans cet état.

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.

So we'll leave him [Plato] to the philosophers and not try to make a novelist of him against his will; he excluded innovative artists from his ideal republic, so we'll exclude him from our republic of fiction.

For a great artist, life is about searching for something that gives you an insatiable craving to go further and beyond.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.