1,307 Quotes About Artists

And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It's your feelings that tell you something's off. Not your mind, not your intellect, not something as obvious as that. The only part of you that really knows what's going on is the part of you that's most a mystery. If that's not Surrealism, I don't know what is.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.