Artist Quotes And Sayings

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“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
– Robert Henri

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”
– Salvador Dalí

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.”
– Samuel Butler

“Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.”
– Scott Roeben

“The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there’d be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map.”
– Seth Godin

“Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
– Shigeru Miyamoto

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”
– Slavoj Žižek

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”
– Steve Martin

“Artists aren’t really people. I’m actually 40 per cent papier mache.”
– Steven Patrick Morrissey

?”Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”
– Steven Pressfield

“I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.”
– Sylvester Stallone

“Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time“.
– Thomas Merton

“I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. ‘If there’s no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.’ That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.”
– Tom Cruise

“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I’m in complete charge of my own career.”
– Tori Amos

“An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.”
– Van Cliburn

“I grew up in an artists’ community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.”
– Vin Diesel

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.”
– Vivienne Westwood

“The earth has music for those who listen.”
– William Shakespeare

“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
– Woody Allen

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
– Yann Martel

“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”
– Yoko Ono

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