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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears. — Tyler Shields

In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children. — Frances Hardinge

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. — Robert J. Flaherty

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. — Grace Slick

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior. — Steven Pressfield

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. — Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives. — Gustave Courbet

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities. — Chris Campanioni

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

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. — Bruce Nauman

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

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats — Vicki Alayne Bradley

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. — Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name. — Chris Mentillo

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. — Maira Kalman

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. — Julius Lester

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. — Yanni

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. — Kelli Russell Agodon

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. — Douglas Wilson

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. — Lon Milo DuQuette

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you. — Kamand Kojouri

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. — Chuck Jones

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. — Peter Beard

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people. — Sally Mann

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do. — Justin Chon

For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear? — Ouida

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are. — Darryl Anka

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. — Kiki Smith

Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it. — Victor A. Davis

There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet. — Ross Wetzsteon

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. — Larry Wall

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. — Edward Hopper

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. — Anselm Kiefer

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. — William McElcheran

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly. — Criss Jami

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other. — Harold Rosenberg

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck. — Joyce Rachelle

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist — Harry Greb

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals. — Sam Inglis

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Boll

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Kahlil Gibran

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being. — Steven Jackson

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. — Edwin Louis Cole

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

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. — Jennifer Stone

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

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

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

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

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. — Edward J. Fraughton

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. — Chuck Berry

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

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. — Isaac Asimov

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. — Audre Lorde

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached. — K'naan

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. — Wesley Snipes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. — John F. Carlson

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. — Ernest Becker

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art. — Marilyn Manson

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist — J.R. Stewart

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
— Maria Callas

She must disappear for a time from the human surface,
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world. — David Foenkinos