Art Quote by Olly Alexander

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

— Yoko Ono

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.

— Will Ferrell

I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this,…

— Arthur Jafa

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

— Leslie T. Chang

I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much…

— Conor McPherson

I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with…

— Brett Dennen

“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

— Kanye West

Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much…

— Conor McPherson

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally,…

— Bill Viola

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

— Jamila Woods

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

— Rufus Wainwright