#Artist

"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."

"Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'"

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."

"I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies."

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."

"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

"If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist."

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."