Nothing like the smell of an artist at work.

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece…

— Mika

This is going to make me sound really weird and stalkery, but I've bought the aftershaves of all my ex-boyfriends. Sometimes I like to…

— Poppy Delevingne

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

— Anthony Ramos

There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your…

— David Bayles

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,…

— Steven Pressfield

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.

— Laurie Simmons

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

— Sarah Kay

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne

“He is both the artist and the work of art. He sees beauty, he creates beauty, and he is beauty. He is the lie…

— Elisa Lorello

An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on…

— Teresita Fernandez

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

— Juliet Stevenson

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…

— Robert Henri

“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of…

— Sharon Louden

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with…

— Matthew McConaughey