#Artists

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

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

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

"The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails"

"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."

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."

"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?"

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

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

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

"Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

"Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows."

"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 do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?"

"Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes."

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

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

"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."

"Great artists suffer for the people."

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."