- “The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.” ― Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You
- “Be Inspired, Be Creative for Making peace on Earth, I am Proud for my Bangladesh..” ― Artist Zakirul Islam Sohel
- “[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.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
- “Find something, that when you are doing it you don’t feel you should be doing something else, and do that.” ― Robert Black
- “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, Killosophy
- “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
- “It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.” ― Tenessee Williams
- “نحن لا يمكن أن نجبر فناناً على أن يعمل بخلاف ما تمليه عليه طبيعته وإلا كنا نجبره على التصنع والتكلف، وهذا شر لا يمكن أن يؤذي الأدب والفن، والمسألة في غاية البساطة مع ذلك، فإذا كنا نتيح للفنان حريته كاملة، فنحن أيضاً أحرار في تقييمنا للأعمال الفنية، فلا نمنح تقديرنا إلا لمن يقدم لنا العمل الفني الكامل، وهو العمل الفني الرفيع فنياً النافع إنسانياً واجتماعياً” ― توفيق الحكيم, ملامح داخلية
- “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
- “I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon, My house is messy and I speak to the moon. I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself. Im an artist, what more can you expect? i am full of soul, love and all the rest.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “Criticise privately but compliment publicly.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “The art I create ends up creating me, and this is my happy ending.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo’s vision, ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
- “Our deepest beliefs about the universe filter their way up through the soil into the tiny aesthetic decisions that the artist makes. How we make our records. Which color feels right. Rhyme schemes and word choices. These kinds of decisions are rarely made out of purely analytical comparison. They come from the guts. From faith.” ― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators
- “You are the birthplace of your own art. Always and forever. Which means you are the art itself. ⠀⠀And that is fucking beautiful.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
- “Je cherche le caractère dans chaque matière. Or le caractère de la céramique de gris est le sentiment du grand feu, et cette figure [sculpture] calcinée dans cet enfer, en exprime je crois assez fortement le caractère.I look for the character of each medium. The character of stoneware is that of a very hot fire, and this figure [sculpture] that has been scorched in the ovens of hell is I think a strong expression of this character.” ― Gauguin Paul
- “Ever flickering between a faint glimmer and shining brightly, the creative artist is like a twinkling star. Their time of hiding in the darkness is the fuel needed to glow across the sky when the ‘light’ time comes. For them, embodying the significance of their insignificance by being nothing and everything simultaneously is the greatest poetry there is. Indeed, this is where the prime essence of the Human Condition lies.” ― Omar Cherif
- “My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like – but more true than the literal truth.” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- “You can choose a love and a life that does not break you. You can claim a softer beauty and a kinder want. Even your animal hunger can soften its rough edges and say a full-throated yes to what is good and kind and holy. Know that insanity is not a prerequisite for passion and that there is another pathway to your art, one that does not demand your pain as payment for its own becoming. Love, it doesn’t have to hurt anymore.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
- “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.” ― Akshay Vasu
- “I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. One minute you’re an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It’s crazy beautiful.” ― Scott McGoldrick
- “If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.” ― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
- “…art deals, at its best, with what has never been observed, or observed only peripherally-darts from what is to what might have been-asking with total interest and sobriety such questions as ‘what if apple trees could talk?’ or ‘what if the haughty old woman next door should fall in love with Mr. Powers, our mailman?’ The artist’s imagination, or the world it builds, is the laboratory of the unexperienced, both the heroic and the unspeakable.” ― John Gardner, On Moral Fiction
- “If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.” ― Aaron Sorkin
- “Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “When I was giving birth to my son, I had a veritable entourage of attendees, including,but not limited to, my mother and sister. I brought two art cards of my mother’s workwith me to give myself something to focus on during labour. I expected to use “SisterMoon” more than “Winter’s Cup” because to me it is my mother as a young woman. Itis probably my favourite piece of hers and I wanted her with me on many levels for thegrand event. However, to my surprise, it was the image of myself that I clung to. Theone of me conveying utter determination and strength, clothed in old finery, raising achalice above my head while I literally manifested and birthed good things fromwithin. It became, in those trying hours, a vital source of power for me. I see thepicture differently now. “Winter’s Cup” as my mother created it has found a life of itsown, far from the one she ever imagined. In the end, this is perhaps the greatestachievement of an artist, of a mother, that their work moves beyond them, becomingfor the viewer a source of truth and beauty with new stories to tell….” ― TobyAnne Stanley, Faye: The Art of Melissa Mary Duncan
- “When a good artist finds a perfect working environment, she wants to create a perfect work because her sensitive soul wants to pay her debt perfectly to that perfect place!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Maybe the knee jerk negative reaction to any criticism by artists is because criticism of art is often more valued than the creation of art. The reward isn’t placed in creating things, but showing your genius in poking holes in other people’s work.I think there are good critics out there, and criticism is necessary for the evolution of an art form. That said, I’ve been in way too many meetings where critcism were more valued than the work subjected to it.” ― Ryan Lang
- “I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, “Why did I never realise before that that was beautiful too?” ― André Gide, The Immoralist
- “My work exhibits both the glories and pitfalls of the autodidact; I let it emerge naturally and I do not force myself to be what I am not.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz