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An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. — Mark Tobey

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist. — Ted Orland

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. — Mick Jagger

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. — Theodore Bikel

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. — Artie Shaw

I am an artist who works with Lego. — Nathan Sawaya

Artists deserve to make a living — Larry Harvey

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue. — James De La Vega

I am not an artist which is 'in.' — Julio Iglesias

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. — Walter Sickert

The true artist can only labor con amore. — Victor Hugo

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw. — Billy Childish

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

All Children are Artists — Pablo Picasso

Johan Cruyff was the first player who understood that he was an artist, and the first who was able and willing to collectivise the art of sports. — David Winner

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. — Sara Genn

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family. — Erica Jong

It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative! — Denny Dent

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. — Roger Ballen

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love. — Molly Crabapple

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

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist. — Talib Kweli

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. — Merry Clayton

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery. — Paul Robeson

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science. — Pearl Zhu

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It ... keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o

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

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out. — Ken Baumann

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace. — Yayoi Kusama

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist. — Kiesza

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. — Wassily Kandinsky

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

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. — Aubrey Beardsley

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude. — Criss Jami

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and no singing artist seems to be in possession of the complete bundle. — Morrissey

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis

True Fans are, loyal & unconditional
(Support deserves acknowledging)
Never let your success get the best of you!!! T.B — Tawana Beecham

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. — Shawn Lukas

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? — Maurice Ravel

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. — Gustave Flaubert

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works. — Peter Doig

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. — Jack Prelutsky

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being. — Tobin Hart

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline. — Jessica White

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman. — L.J. Maas

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. — Odilon Redon

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time. — Jan Brett

One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist. — Heinrich Boll

Don't live like a CEO when you're still a sandwich artist. — Sophia Amoruso

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

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. — Marcel Duchamp

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists — William Blake

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people. — Waguih Ghali

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, — Brian K. Vaughan

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway. — Sophia Amoruso

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't. — M. Night Shyamalan

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place. — Gloria Estefan

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. — W. Eugene Smith

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally. — Jill Scott

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law. — Thane Rosenbaum

If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will. — Jen Frederick

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work. — Madeleine L'Engle

Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet. — Louise Penny

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right. — Will Ferrell

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

Being an artist is a job for life. — Brian Eno

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. — Olivia D'Abo