#Artist

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

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

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

"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."

"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."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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

"The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it."

"Closed eyes cannot see light"

"I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters."

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

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."

"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."

"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."

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

"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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

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