Artist Quote by Kazimir Malevich

I basically came from nothing and turned my life into something.

— LaChanze

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our…

— Harold Rosenberg

I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist,…

— Henry Miller

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in…

— Kirsha Kaechele

“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to…

— Patti Smith

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.…

— Patti Smith

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life…

— Emilia Wickstead

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but…

— Haruki Murakami

I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

— Elan Lee

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young