Artist Quotes

It was so long ago now that the job felt like part of her soul. Like being a teacher or an artist who made things out of sand. You never really saw the results. You just trusted that you knew what you were doing and that everything would work out okay in the end.

~ Emma Straub

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.”I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to truth and coincidence is a lie to distract us? The reason I was in this place no longer mattered. The harsh reality stared me in the face and demanded an immediate decision. Walk away and blame it on my age. Or stay and try to help a woman who had slowly become my friend over the last few weeks.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

The creative mind is a divine force.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

~ Robert Henri

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect, the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

~ Ryan Lilly

Trust the vibes you get, energy doesn’t lie.

~ Genereux Philip

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...

~ Madeleine L'engle

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

~ Amy Neftzger

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

~ Amit Kalantri

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic and magical traditions of which she's practiced, taught and been initiated. She is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist yogini, teaches at the Buddhistische Gesellschaft Berlin and is the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM).

~ Zeena Schreck

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

~ Amit Kalantri

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

The secret of good magic is another magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magic is logic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

~ Amit Kalantri

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

A bad magician never gets the good props.

~ Amit Kalantri

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians, he is just more magical in his presentation.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

~ Amit Kalantri

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

~ Amit Kalantri

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

~ Amit Kalantri

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.

~ Tom Robbins

I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you're quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I've tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.

~ Melody Lee

Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be I CAN and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be I did it!.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

~ Tom Spanbauer

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

~ Nuno Roque

And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...

~ Hiroko Sakai

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

~ Criss Jami

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning.

~ Steeven Shaw

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

~ Truman Capote