#Artist

"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."

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."

"Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above."

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

"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

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

"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."

"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."

"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.'"

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

"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."

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

"Every artist was first an amateur."

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

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

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

"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."