In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business.… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. — Bronislaw Huberman Copy Share Image
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
“Life's a beautiful struggle. That's why I document mine, because I hope it'll help you maneuvering through yours. That's why I stay… — Alexis Renderos Copy Share Image
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“True artistry in perfumery is the marriage of notes that may juxtapose each other but become harmonious in a blend. Born of… — Marian Bendeth Global Fragrance Expert Sixth Scents Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Facebook is fantastic because it gives me contact with my fans, but I feel like it's not about the music anymore -… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image