#Artist

"I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that."

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

"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."

"The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found."

"Closed eyes cannot see the light"

"Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people."

"In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present."

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

"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."

"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.'"

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"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.'"

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

"Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."

"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."