Artist Quotes

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

Be sure to bend but never break

The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

When an artist friend of mine explained she was working her way up the creative ladder, I asked if she would kindly paint the front of my house on the way up.

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got

Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life...

Listen to the sunset...see its pretty hue... When you see it, think of me...and I'll think of you...

For me, a hearty laugh is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. It's a way of life!

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive...

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.

If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer

I want to be famous but unknown!

Curiosity is the main energy...

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Inking is meditation in liquid form...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.

A pianist is a painter of music

An artist's job is to make new clichés.

I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.

An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.