#Artist

"I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist."

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

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

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."

"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 don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

"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."

"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."

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

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

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

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

"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

"A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity."

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

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

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

"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 carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public."