No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

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