Artist Quotes

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying hoe or bitch I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using bitches and hoes as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

~ Scott Mcgoldrick

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

~ Criss Jami

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining everything. But Everything can be only the path to get to the success of your dream. You can not fail until you give up. As long as you keep going, you are on the path for your success.

~ Hiroko Sakai

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.

~ Sagar Gosavi

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason, it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

~ Madeleine L'engle

We search our entire lives to create a genuine and reliable self that can relate with other people and faithfully express our artistic temperament. Our battle for personal authenticity requires us to penetrate layers of self-deception, conquer ego defense mechanism, and destroy a false self that is intent upon meeting other people’s expectations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

~ Franz Liszt

I don’t believe in influence. I think that in order to be an artist, you have to move. When you stop moving, then you’re no longer an artist. And if you move from somebody else’s position, you simply cannot know the next step. I think that everyone is on his own line. I think that after you’ve made one step, the next step reveals itself. I believe that you were born on this line. I don’t say that the actual footsteps were marked before you get to them, and I don’t say that change isn’t possible in your course. But I do believe we unfold out of ourselves, and we do what we are born to do sooner or later, anyway.

~ Agnes Martin

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

~ Criss Jami

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

~ John O'donohue

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

~ John Barth

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

~ Maurice Ravel

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

~ Quentin Crisp

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit the tiled hearth. He knelt to pick it up, not looking at her. “You mean if I were the only witness to a crime, that sort of thing?”“No. I mean, if there were other people around, but you were the only one who could see something. As if it were invisible to everyone but you.”He hesitated, still kneeling, the dented tape gun gripped in his hand.“I know it sounds crazy,” Clary ventured nervously, “but…”He turned around. His eyes, very blue behind the glasses, rested on her with a look of firm affection. “Clary, you’re an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don’t. It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy—just different. There’s nothing wrong with being different.

~ Cassandra Clare

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.

~ Michael Richardson

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on every level, it asks that we engage with life in a visceral, and interactive way.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

According to Christ, the pathway to revelation, the heart of revival, and the fullness of the Kingdom of God is becoming child- like. Becoming dependent as children in our relationship with our heavenly Father forces us to lose our religious mindsets and protocol. Staying in a place of wonder and trust will keep us from becoming easily offended by the ways God chooses to manifest Himself in our lives.

~ Theresa Dedmon

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

~ Farid F. Ibrahim

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

~ Vicki Alayne Bradley

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

~ Steeven Shaw

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

~ Vicki Alayne Bradley

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

~ Tawny Lara

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

~ Donald L. Hicks

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

~ Tom Althouse

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

~ Criss Jami

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

~ Criss Jami

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a part of your personality that you don’t just stop doing it.

~ David Sedaris

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

~ Criss Jami

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

~ Mark Hewer

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

As an artist, motive means opportunity

~ Siren Waroe

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson