So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference. — India Arie Copy Share Image
Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that. — Kenny G Copy Share Image
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that. — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him,… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
