#Artist

"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."

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

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."

"As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

"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 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."

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

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

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

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."