Artist Quotes

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

As an artist, it’s never really enough. You always want to strive to get bigger and better and push the limits of what you can actually do.

Perception is the paintbrush. The reality, the canvas. You are the artist. Create purposefully.

I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.

We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.