- “The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “I don’t want to be an insufferable pretentious “artist”. I just want to fucking write. To create. And to to hear the stories of the people around the globe who go, “yeah, okay, I’ve been there, man.” ― Nicole D’Settēmi, Lacking Shades of Grey: The Thin Line Between Creativity & Genius
- “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
- “Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don’t keep office hours.” ― Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
- “But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.” ― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- “It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace…” ― Oksana Rus
- “Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I’ll walk myself home.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “If you can’t paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.” ― Alain Jaubert, NOT A BOOK: Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People from the Palettes Series – VHS
- “Be calm…calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life…” ― Oksana Rus
- “Like the usurpers in the Italian Renaissance, they seek to gloss over the illegitimacy of their rô1e by offering tangible advantages and making a fine show; that explains their economic liberalism and their patronage of the arts. They employ art not merely as a means to fame and a propaganda instrument but also as an opiate to soothe the opposition. The fact that their art policy is often accompanied by a true love and understanding of art does not affect its social basis. The courts of the Tyrants are the most important cultural centres of the age and its greatest repositories of artistic production […] Yet in spite of this activity at the courts, the art of the age of the Tyrants is not entirely a product of the court; the rationalistic and individualistic spirit of the age hindered the development of that solemn pageantry and those conventional forms which are characteristic of a court style. The only features in this art that we can ascribe to the court are its joy in the senses, its refined intellectuality, and its somewhat artificial elegance of expression—all features to be found in the older Ionian tradition but developed to a still higher degree at the courts of the Tyrants.” ― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
- “I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.” ― Jonathan Harnisch, Porcelain Utopia
- “The picture is a flash of color stories. No one can imagine a picture that has no story.” ― David Berkowitz Chicago
- “You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can’t find that belief. If you can’t do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it’s what you came here to do.That’s what makes an artist.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
- “Art is a basic human right.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.” ― Janet Fitch
- “One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Explore your unique talent.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” ― Shah Asad Rizvi
- “Freedom, makes me realize the beauty of life and nature, even death. A powerful desire that manifests itself through courage and that is something felt only if you are willing to live your life…And no, it is not easy to stay alive, that is not an easy task. But those who do, carry the symbol of freedom. You can tell a soul has seen hard times in their life, yet still has such a beautiful soul, even after they have passed away.Freedom… something artists know to do well.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “The mixture of pain and anger, from past experiences, are the most sincere colors to create new horizons on my canvas.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “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 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
- “I would hope not to be like the artist who has to depend on the naivety of his audience for applause.” ― Criss Jami
- “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
- “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- “You know it’s ART, when the check clears.” ― Andy Warhol
- “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
- “Writing is Art. There are no good or bad writers.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
- “Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can’t do it. You can’t expect them to love you.” ― Dakota Lane, The Orpheus Obsession