Artist Quotes

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

~ Criss Jami

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

~ Criss Jami

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

~ Criss Jami

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

~ William Faulkner

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists, only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

~ Jen Knox

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

~ Criss Jami

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

~ Amit Kalantri

Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O génio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demónios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

~ Gary Inbinder

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

~ Criss Jami

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

~ Tiffany Madison

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores.

~ Criss Jami

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

~ Criss Jami

I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live.

~ Mitch Lucker

A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts.  A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

~ Sameer Khan

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

~ Roman Payne

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

~ Woody Allen

she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Here’s to the “so-so-ing” it.Here’s to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Here’s to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed.Here’s to driving home past dark and dozing off the road.Here’s to no over time.Here’s to the long line to management.Here’s to ALREADY DONE THAT!Here’s to quitting, saying I’m through, saying I can’t compete for your leftover lean cuisine. Here’s to art. Here’s to freedom. Here’s to saying God gave me every penny and knowing it’s true. Here’s to the next 40 years with you.Here’s to the new.— Adrianna Stepiano

~ Adrianna Stepiano

I guess pencil crayons are like life; we hope to gain wisdom through our experiences, and sadly many of us learn important lessons later in life - however all that colour we scratched and pressed into our canvases create stories for our children, and grandchildren - things to laugh at as we look back, and hopefully things others can use as examples of lessons of caution, and tales of overcoming negative situations despite the overwhelming odds stacked up against us. Tales of past likes and loves, lessons learned, and the stories about how you met the right person and how you ended up with them - often a winding tale until there's an 'AH-HA' moment of enlightenment, lol. Tales of raw adversity...because rawness is beautiful, and learned wisdom which proves showing weakness is actual bravery. That not everyone you lose is a loss, and that in life, a situation will keep repeating itself until one learns their lesson. As sad as it is to see these pencils being shortened, and the way one tries to preserve what's left as they get shorter and shorter... the new box of crayons which will eventually be bought will continue the storytelling of the old, and add new stories until they themselves expire.

~ Cheyanne Ratnam

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you’re not hearing them.” her mother told her, then she kissed her forehead and mumbled how she liked her art and went downstairs. Cecilia wrote these words on her bedroom wall, just behind her headboard for no one to see it but herself to know that it exists.

~ Basma Salem

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.

~ Christina Strigas

Don't breathe to survive, dance and feel alive.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

~ Amit Kalantri