People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

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

I like Cardi B!

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

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

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I’m the king of the anthems.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

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

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.