#Artists

"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another."

"Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me."

"Great artists suffer for the people."

"Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light."

"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page."

"I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

"Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art."

"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."

"I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art."

"It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work."

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

"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."

"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists."

"You don’t make art out of good intentions."

"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."