#Artist

"Closed eyes cannot see light"

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

"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."

"The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

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

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

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

"The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person."

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

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

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

"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's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."