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Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces. — Raheel Farooq

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality. — Christina Strigas

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work. — Seth Godin

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us. — Anne Rice

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget. — Hetti Perkins

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. — Chris Campanioni

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ... — Robert Henri

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. — Albert Camus

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them. — Amit Kalantri

Artists are fiery, they do not weep! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — Jeff Koons

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. — Kim Gordon

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it. — Robert Walser

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. — Anneli Rufus

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. — Robert Adams

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. — Rachel Field

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists. — Ann Voskamp

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

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. — Marty Rubin

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. — D.W. Winnicott

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. — Oscar Wilde

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community. — Alex Grey

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

That life has no clear purpose or meaning is the best possible news for artists. — Marty Rubin

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them. — Julia Cameron

I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper. — Jonathan Culver

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer — Alfred De Musset

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you. — Marty Rubin

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. — Tony Kushner

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art. — Julian Casablancas

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. — Gustave Flaubert

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. — Marina Abramovic

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. — Marty Rubin

The eye is the best of artists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. — Marty Rubin

Art doesn't bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products. — John Updike

The terrible things that happen to us," Tessa said slowly. "What we
do with them ... I think that's what makes us artists. — Helen Maryles Shankman

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. — LeRoy Neiman

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp. — Art Garfunkel

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. — Ayn Rand

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money — Oscar Wilde

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art. — Nikki Sixx

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration? — Kate Christensen

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

Love is an art and this world lack artists. — Javaria Waseem

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. — Marty Rubin

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. — Jessye Norman

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it. — Mary Robinette Kowal

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. — Jack White

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco De Goya

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. — Jeff Koons

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate. — Tom Ford

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time. — Michael Redd

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. — Meher Baba

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. — Tony Kushner

Every artist takes their final work to the grave. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.. — Vincent Van Gogh

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket. — Alex Gino

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H.L. Mencken

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. — Peter Gabriel

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. — Carl Jung

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. — Carla H. Krueger

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Artists show us what we blind to.
Baris Gencel — Baris Gencel

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

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art. — Neil Gaiman