The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

I like Cardi B!

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.

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

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

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.

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

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.

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

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

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.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

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

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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.

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?