#Artist

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"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."

"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."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

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

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

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

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

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

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."

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

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

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

"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.'"

"If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist."

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

"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."