A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

Success is different for every artist - I get psyched when i help realise their vision etc.

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I have not done much as an actor. There is no end for an artist, and my best is yet to come.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

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

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

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