Bob Quote by Bob Dylan

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

— Bob Dylan

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

“He had no illusion that this was bittersweet or somehow necessary to make art. It just burned. Anyone who felt this would take their…

— Arthur Phillips

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have…

— Tom Junod

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

— Steven Pressfield

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

— Jay Michaelson

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.

— Steven Van Zandt

“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde