Artist Quotes

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I am an artist. I am interested in life.

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

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”

A great poet to me is a person who can describe a painting in such ways that even a person with closed eyes can feel the pain of the artist.

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.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.