#Artist

"Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."

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

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."

"I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor."

"I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!"

"With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound."

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

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

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"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."

"I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art."

"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

"I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"Even a true artist does not always produce art."