In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
For an artist it is important to show what your mood is at that particular moment. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that… — Ryan McCartan Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose” — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It's exciting for artists when you take them out of their comfort zone. — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image