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An artist's work is one long conversation with life. — Marty Rubin

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. — Damien Hirst

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them. — Michael Lee West

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

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world. — Niall Horan

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. — Marcel Proust

True artists elicit an emotional response through their work. You, Aims, are an artist." I — Kerry Lonsdale

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson. — David Hallberg

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. — Phylicia Rashad

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea. — David Guetta

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks. — Bill Viola

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. — Blaise Pascal

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. — Laurie Anderson

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists. — Caity Lotz

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin

Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. — David Bayles

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

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something. — Quentin Tarantino

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. — Crystal Gayle

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. — Aniruddha Sastikar

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve — Frank Wynne

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

People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work. — Jane Hamilton

The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt

It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. — Chloe Thurlow

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale. — Ted Naifeh

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. — Eric Drooker

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years. — Nick Blaemire

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that. — Julia Cameron

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear. — George Duke

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product. — Julia Cameron

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality. — Adrienne Bailon

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. — Yareli Arizmendi

An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown. — Marty Rubin

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes. — Wayne Thiebaud

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done! — Rachel Stevens

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

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is. — Eric Drooker

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw? — Banksy

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

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work. — Charles Saatchi

It's a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work. — Solange Nicole

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

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work. — Mignon McLaughlin

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple. — Paul Russo

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

I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter. — Jason Molina

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code. — Steve Lohr

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political. — Alicia Keys

Artists work best alone. Work alone. — Steve Wozniak

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris ... there are so many artists and producers. — Wynter Gordon

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages. — Hans Arp

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

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. — Marina Abramovic

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists. — Juno Temple

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists. — Rayvon Owen

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. — Kate Bush

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

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. — Brian Eno

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs. — Billy Preston

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

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. — Howard Hodgkin

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

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

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

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

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

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. — David Hockney

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

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. — Alex Grey

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. — Leonard Baskin

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. — Giorgio Moroder

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while. — Saul Leiter

I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town. — Katherine McNamara

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. — Tony Kushner

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view. — Omari Hardwick

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. — Julia Cameron

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. — Jim Sullivan

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1. — Matt Squire

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. — Gloria Steinem

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. — Edward Ruscha

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists. — Sarah Kay

I love artists. I love watching other people work. — Jake Gyllenhaal

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

Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself. — Austin Kleon

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they? — Michael Scott