1,307 Quotes About Artists

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Artists could never, would never, harm anybody. They’re too busy painting. Same with ad drunks. They might be a bit useless at functional tasks, they may break things (small objects, precious objects, door handles, car accessories, and such), but they’re too pissed to get seriously involved in anything.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

Good artists are always crazy, one way or another.

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.