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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. — Paul Valery

The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne. — Wassily Kandinsky

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions. — Rembrandt

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

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it. — Ariel Pink

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. — Patti Smith

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

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics. — Nell Zink

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. — Constantin Brancusi

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. — Patti Smith

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire. — Jim Lee

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

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done. — Janet Scudder

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work. — Andrew Levitas

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. — Ezra Pound

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work. — Jillian Mayer

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists. — Simon Cowell

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist. — Robert Fripp

The artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we're a lawyer, an artist or a police officer. — Robert Wringham

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle! — Conor Maynard

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves. — Andre Holland

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. — Kenneth Edmonds

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before. — Sally Mann

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. — Julia Cameron

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist. — Terry Gross

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. — H.G.Wells

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw

It could be argued that the reaction to a work of art is a creative act which is the counterpart of the action of the artist. — Frank Willett

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work. — Evelyn Underhill

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. — Nelson Shanks

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — D.T. Suzuki

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it. — Robert Barry

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with. — Dieter Rams

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. — Dieter Roth

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person. — Valentina

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world. — Jose Parla

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living. — Harry Crews

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. — Jock Sturges

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure. — William Faulkner

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

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all. — Susan Sontag

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it. — Jan Peacock

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. — Henry Miller

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do. — Johannes Brahms

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. — Michael Leunig

What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations — Kurt Vonnegut

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts. — Jimenez Lai

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

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist. — Clarice Cliff

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes. — John Allison

I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should. — Ryan Braun

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist. — Lady Gaga

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. — Laird Barron

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences. — Jane Rosenthal

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. — Jacques Lipchitz

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. — Tatiana Maslany

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

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career. — Sarah Gadon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

Mediocrity is Death. — Suleman Abdullah

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work. — Anish Kapoor

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire. — Hayden Pearton

The artist needs no religion beyond his work. — Elbert Hubbard

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. — Austin Kleon

A good artist makes imaginations real! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. — Max Ernst

The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work ... People criticize a picture by their ear — Okakura Kakuzo

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. — Jean Cocteau

Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could. — Gene Luen Yang

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

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad. — Jasper Johns

The artist by his work is known. — Francoise-Marguerite De Sevigne

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. — Arthur Ganson

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