1,307 Quotes About Artists

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.And to their girls, they will give,while with their sons they'll share;where I will bear a song—a son! The wife of despair.

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What wedo with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.

There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately, almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."-Jonathan Meese