- “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, The Flower to the Painter
- “As an artist I recognise that I have been brought up Pākehā, but am intrigued about addressing this mixing of culture in my life and society as a whole. I interpret this in different ways in my work, and have no answers.” ― Lisa Walker
- “The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.” ― Lucy H. Pearce, Creatrix: She Who Makes
- “Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.” ― Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
- “What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century – a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.” ― Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place
- “The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t” ― Yahtzee Croshaw
- “Never I’ve felt more validated in my life that through art.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.” ― Edith Schaeffer, The Hidden Art of Homemaking
- “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.” ― Heather Demetrios, I’ll Meet You There
- “I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Art is a basic human right.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Writing is Art. There are no good or bad writers.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
- “Love is artists’ foremost muse.” ― A.G. Stranger
- “It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
- “If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “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
- “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, Letter to Madeleine Bernard (1889)
- “Even now I know that I am not a hero of my own story” ― Kaelyn Rene
- “Even now I know that I am not a hero of my own story” ― Kaelyn Rene
- “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.” ― Shawna Lemay
- “I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrowfor I am not a poem. I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspiredbut empty and weary from drinking too much at all timesand I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speakfor I don’t speak muchat alland my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too muchor not at alland never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am nota poembut an elegyat my bestbut unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,but others are not.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
- “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
- “With art, my heart and mind are fine-tuned.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “I was never a religious person, much less a practitioner; however, I was always a faithful believer in a divine energy. An energy that is obviously superior to ours, and similar to that of an artist. An absolute creativity full of different styles and textures, of feelings and mystical wisdom manifested in creation. Faithful believer of this same energy that has kept my faith active and full of curiosity to live my life.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- “A true artist is never satisfied with settling, so you will never see them stay the same for very long. They are like chameleons… ever-changing, ever-scheming, ever-chasing that glimpse of divine inspiration that creates them anew.” ― Sarah Loven, Les Belles Lettres
- “Nature is the Creator, I just do the fine tuning” ― Steven George Clark
- “Despite all the lovely and undoubtedly accurate statements pertaining to what art is, perhaps art is merely a person creating a new ethical world in which they can reside. Perhaps when the sculptor, painter, writer, musician, and poet arrive at the point where after many trials and glorious errors they create art, they can put down their chisel, paintbrushes, pen, musical instruments, and verse making. Perhaps when the artist travels beyond the realm of the ordinary, they no longer feel a need to pay homage to a world where other people’s values and principles rule. Creating a new realm for their personal occupancy, they can now destroy all their crutches, burn, crush, and obliterate all their prior creations for what they now perceive as an abomination.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls